yantra

… with this power through specific instruments: mantra (sacred sound), yantra (sacred diagram), mandala (sacred space), ritual, and above all diksha , initiation given by a guru into a living lineage.

The deity drawn as geometry If the shaligrama is the divine found in nature, the yantra is the divine drawn as pure structure.

That is why the deepest reading of the temple calls it a yantra in stone.

It is a form with a precise bija , a seed-syllable that is its sound-body, and a yantra , a geometric diagram that is its spatial body, and the practitioner installs it within his own person.

Its goddess is Tripurasundari, "the beautiful one of the three cities," and its central system is the Śrīvidyā, with its intricate mantra and its great yantra, the Śrīcakra of nine interlocking triangles.

…dition worships Lalita Tripurasundari through the geometry of the Sri Yantra and produced commentators of the rank of Bhaskararaya.

…rmour" hymns that wrap a person in the names of a god; the protective yantra worn as an amulet; and above all the fierce guardian deities invoked as shields.

…over with sound and divinity, the body remade into a temple, a living yantra , a diagram of the divine.