chakra
चक्र cakraA centre of the subtle body, visualised as a lotus on the central channel, through which the coiled power (kundalini) is said to rise; the word means wheel or disc.
Where this term appears
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
Inside it he translated a sixteenth-century Sanskrit poem, the Sat-Chakra-Nirupana , which means the description of the six centres.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
That subtle body is mapped by chakras , the centres, and nadis , the channels.
- What is Yoga? Yoga
They map nadis , channels through which subtle energy runs; chakras , centres strung along the subtle spine; and prana , the vital breath that moves through them.
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
Bhuta shuddhi ('purification of the elements') is the preliminary tantric rite in which the worshipper mentally dissolves their own body, element by element, back…
- Jagannath Puri and the Ratha Yatra Temples
High on the temple's pinnacle, beneath the great wheel known as the Nila Chakra , the flag is changed every day.
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
Its physiology is the tantric subtle body, the network of channels, the cakras , and the central axis up which the coiled power, kuṇḍalinī, is raised.
- What are Mudras? Lineages
…dya , the tradition that adores Lalita Tripurasundari through the Sri Chakra , the great diagram of nine nested enclosures, the worshipper offers the Goddess a fixed set of ten secret hand-seals, the dasha-mudr…
- What are the Shakti Peethas? Temples
To free Shiva from the corpse, and to free the world from the dance, Vishnu sends his Sudarshana chakra , his discus, and cuts the body of Sati piece by piece while Shiva moves.