A chakra is a meditation-aid in the form of a psychic or psychospiritual energy-center in the subtle body, as visualized in a variety of Hindu and Buddhist tantric yoga and meditation practices.
Chakra iconography may derive from the five symbols of yajna, the Vedic fire altar.
Sapta Chakra, an 1899 manuscript, illustrates the esoteric correspondence(s) between subtle energy and Tibetan psycho-physiology.
An illustration of a Shaiva Nath chakra system, folio 2 from the Nath Charit, 1823. Mehrangarh Museum Trust.
A Tibetan illustration of the subtle body showing the central channel, two side channels, and five chakras
A subtle body is a "quasi material" aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings. The subtle body is impo
Chakra
…Sanskrit: चक्र, romanized: cakra, lit. 'wheel, circle'; Pali: cakka) is a meditation-aid in the form of a psychic or psychospiritual energy-center in the subtle body, as visualized in a variety of Hindu and Buddhist tantric yoga and meditation practices. Medieval Buddhist texts from 8th century CE mention four or…
The subtle body and the cosmic man, Nepal 1600s