Śrī Yantra Body Mapping
Śrī Yantra Body Mapping is a Hindu / Tantric — Śrī Yantra on the body body system as transmitted through the lineage The Śrī Yantra is a nine-triangle diagram used in Śrīvidyā contexts, with a bindu at its centre. Tripurā Tāpinī Upaniṣad materials provide the canonical Tripurā and mantra setting; the overlay of its crossings onto the torso is a modern comparative visual convention.. This page lists every point in the system with sourced placements and links to cross-tradition correspondences curated for The Body Spiritual.
Open in interactive explorerPrimary sources
- Tripurā Tāpinī Upaniṣad (Thirty Minor Upanishads, trans. K. Narayanasvami Aiyar (1914)) — Tripurā Tāpinī Upaniṣad, sections on Tripurā, mantra, and the yantra; section numbering follows the 1914 English edition.
- David Gordon White, Tantra in Practice (University of Chicago Press (2000)) — Comparative studies of tantric ritual technologies, including yantra practice and its later interpretive contexts.
Known lineage variants
- Tantric Śrīvidyā lineages differ in triangle orientation, ritual sequence, and naming of the nine enclosures; this entry renders crossings rather than a full āvaraṇa taxonomy.
- The nine crossings and bindu are projected onto a front-view torso for visual comparison; the source text does not establish these exact somatic coordinates.
Related systems
No other systems share this tradition label.
Points
- Sri Yantra intersection 1 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 2 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 3 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 4 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 5 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 6 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 7 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 8 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Sri Yantra intersection 9 — One of the nine crossing loci in the nine-triangle figure
- Bindu — central seed point — Śrīvidyā focal point
Frequently asked
What is Sri Yantra intersection 1?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 2?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 3?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 4?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 5?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 6?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 7?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 8?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Sri Yantra intersection 9?
This locus marks one of the nine crossings formed by the interpenetrating triangles of the Śrī Yantra. Its torso coordinate is a front-view editorial projection for comparison, not an anatomical or universally prescribed body point.
What is Bindu — central seed point?
The bindu is the visual centre and concentrated focal point of the yantra tradition. We place it above the torso as a crownward attention aid; this body placement is an editorial convention rather than a claim that the Upaniṣad gives a somatic coordinate.