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bhupura

भूपुर bhūpura

The outermost square enclosure of the Sri Yantra, with its three lines and gates; the 'earth-stretch' that frames the figure.

Where this term appears

  • Nyasa As Architecture Treatise

    The bhupura - the outermost square gate of the yantra - maps to the muladhara region (the base of the spine).

  • The Chariot Treatise

    Around the sixteen-petalled lotus is a triple-square enclosure - the bhupura - with four gates at the cardinal directions (east, south, west, north).

  • The Court Treatise

    …ch enclosure carry a specific qualifier: The outermost enclosure (the bhupura , the three squares) holds the Prakata Yoginis - the Manifest Yoginis, ten in number, who guard the cardinal and inter-cardinal dire…

  • The Lost Book Treatise

    …n a sixteen-petalled lotus, then a triple square enclosure called the bhupura with four gates at the cardinal directions.

  • The Nuclear Scientist and the Temple Treatise

    The entire architecture of the Sri Vidya tradition, normally encountered as a diagram on a metal plate the size of a hand, would in this temple be walked through. The practitioner would stand at the bhupura.

  • The Shape Of The Whole Treatise

    The Sri Chakra , in its standard nine-enclosure structure, with the central bindu and the surrounding triangles and the outer petals and the bhupura gateway.

  • The Worship - At The Architecture Of Nine Doors Treatise

    Every navavarana puja across the major lineages begins with the practitioner approaching the bhupura , the outermost square enclosure with its four cardinal gates.

  • Two Worships, Four Yagas Treatise

    … Chapter 8 named at the architectural level: entry at the gate of the bhupura (the outermost square of the Sri Yantra), traversal of the nine enclosures inward, the shodashopachara (sixteen offerings) at each s…

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