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Mandala of the Two Worlds
The Mandala of the Two Worlds (Ryōkai mandara), also called Ryōbu mandara, is a pair of hanging paintings—the Womb World and Diamond World Mandalas—central to Japanese Esoteric Buddhism.
Mandalay (poem)
Mandalay, also "The Road to Mandalay," is Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem in Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), voiced by a cockney soldier longing for Burma, famous for its refrain and disputed geography.
Mandalay (မန္တလေး)
Mandalay (မန္တလေး), Myanmar's second-largest city and Upper Myanmar's commercial hub, was founded by King Mindon in 1857 as the last royal capital, with a walled royal city, and was the epicenter of the devastating Mw 7.7 earthquake of 28 March 2025.
Mandalay Bay
Mandalay Bay, also known as Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, is a 43-story casino resort on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, opened in 1999 and operated by MGM Resorts International.
Mandalay Region
Mandalay Region is a central administrative region of Myanmar whose capital, Mandalay City, is the country's second-largest city and last royal capital, home to about 6.7 million people.
Mandalay Resort Group
Mandalay Resort Group, formerly Circus Circus Enterprises (renamed June 1999), was a Las Vegas hotel-casino corporation operating Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, and Circus Circus until MGM MIRAGE acquired it in April 2005 for $71 per share.
Mandalika International Street Circuit
Mandalika International Street Circuit is a 4.301 km motorsport race track in the Mandalika resort area on Lombok, Indonesia, that has hosted the Indonesian MotoGP round since 2022.
Mandalorians
Mandalorians: fictional Star Wars warrior culture from Outer Rim planet Mandalore, known for beskar armor, T-visor helmets, the Darksaber, and the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019).
Mandaluyong
Mandaluyong (City of Mandaluyong) is a highly urbanized city at the center of Metro Manila, Philippines: 11.26 km², 27 barangays, 465,902 residents (2020), cityhood by RA 7675 in 1994, host to SM Megamall.
Mandamus
Mandamus, a common law "we command" writ, is a court order compelling officials, agencies, or lower courts to perform ministerial duties or correct clear abuses of discretion, granted only when no adequate alternative remedy exists.
Mandan
Mandan: upper Missouri River people of earth-lodge farming villages in North Dakota, now one of the Three Affiliated Tribes (MHA Nation) on the Fort Berthold Reservation; nearly destroyed by the 1781 and 1837 smallpox epidemics.
Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes or MHA Nation, is a federally recognized tribal nation sharing the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota.
Mandana Karimi
Mandana Karimi (ماندانا کریمی), born Manizeh Karimi, is an Iranian actress and model based in India, known for Bhaag Johnny, Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3, Bigg Boss 9, and Lock Upp; she left India for Dubai in 2026 and says she is banned from Iran.
Mandana Mishra
Mandana Mishra (मण्डन मिश्र) was an eighth-century Indian philosopher who wrote on Mimamsa and Vedanta; his Brahmasiddhi is a major Advaita work, and tradition makes him Shankara's defeated debate opponent.
Mandane
Mandane (Old Iranian Mandanā) is, in Greek literary tradition, a daughter of the Median king Astyages, the wife of Cambyses I, and the mother of Cyrus the Great.
Mandar M. Deshmukh
Mandar M. Deshmukh, also known as Mandar Deshmukh, is an Indian condensed matter physicist at TIFR Mumbai, a 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner working on 2D materials.
Mandara Kingdom
The Mandara Kingdom, also known as the Wandala state or Sultanate of Mandara, was a pre-colonial polity in the Mandara Mountains foothills of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria.
Mandarin (bureaucrat)
Mandarin (bureaucrat): a Western term for an imperial Chinese scholar-official appointed via the civil service examinations. From Malay mantri; also gave its name to Guānhuà, standard Mandarin Chinese.
Mandarin (character)
The Mandarin is a Marvel Comics supervillain, Iron Man's archenemy since Tales of Suspense #50 (February 1964), created by Stan Lee and Don Heck, wielding ten alien rings; a Fu Manchu-style yellow peril figure later reimagined in the MCU as Xu Wenwu.
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese (普通话/Putonghua, Taiwan 国语, Singapore 华语) is the standardized variety of Chinese based on Beijing pronunciation, northern Mandarin vocabulary, and modern vernacular grammar, the PRC's national standard language since the 1955 definition and 2000 law.
Mandarin Chinese profanity
Mandarin Chinese profanity (Putonghua taboo language): insults centered on the target's mother, ancestors, and sexual terms; homophone euphemisms such as NMSL and 傻逼; state censorship drives recoded internet slang like the Grass Mud Horse.
Mandarin duck
Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata), East Asian perching duck; male has orange sail feathers. Native to Siberia, China, Japan; naturalized in Britain and western Europe; nests in tree cavities.
Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School
The Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School (鴛鴦蝴蝶派, Yuanyang hudie pai) was a current of Chinese popular fiction centered in Shanghai from the late Qing into the Republican era.
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies fiction
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies fiction (鴛鴦蝴蝶派, yuanyang hudie pai), also called the Saturday school, was a school of popular urban fiction flourishing in Shanghai from the late Qing through the early Republican era.
Mandarin orange
The mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata) is a small citrus tree native to South China, domesticated there for four millennia, whose loose-peeled fruit includes clementines, satsumas, and tangerines.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (文华东方酒店集团)
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (文华东方酒店集团) is a luxury hotel owner and operator formed in 1985, running 45 hotels across 28 countries as part of the Jardine Matheson group.
Mandarin quota system and provincial examination quotas
The Mandarin quota system and provincial examination quotas (学额制度) were Qing dynasty rules fixing how many government students each school admitted and how many degrees each province received.
Mandarin square
The mandarin square, or buzi (补子), is an embroidered rank badge sewn onto the robes of civil and military officials in Ming and Qing dynasty China, with birds for civil and beasts for military ranks.
Mandarine Park
Mandarine Park is an open-air event venue on the Costanera Norte of Buenos Aires, Argentina, opened in 2014 and used mainly for large electronic-music events.
Mandaru
Mandaru is the sixth of seventeen early "kings who lived in tents" in the Assyrian King List, named between Harharu and Imsu; the list assigns him no regnal years.