(Previously on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 19th, 2024—January 12th, 2025, this posthumous review of Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet captures the exhibition as it was upon my visit.) Even absent of Tibetan Buddhist artwork, the architecture of the Met’s Robert Lehman Wing resembles a mandala; the skylights create a circle of light within which the atrium floor’s four walls form a square, and the hallways outside of these walls chain into a