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Yantra

A sacred diagram used in tantric worship and meditation as the form of a deity.

Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantra and devotion

A yantra is a geometric figure, drawn or engraved, that serves as a seat and body of a deity in tantric practice. The most famous is the Śrī Yantra of the goddess Lalitā, nine interlocking triangles around a central point. It is worshipped and meditated on as the cosmos and the self.