The Art of Yantras

NEW 2013 April 23 NEW
The twelve yantras that appeared weekly in the Daily Doodles in 2013 have been added.

A Mantra, so I'm given to understand, is a sound used for meditation, not for its meaning but for its mind-focusing property. Tantra is the same idea, but involving yogic acts, including of a sexual nature. Yantra, so I understand it, signifies a visual which serves like a Mantra for meditative mind-focusing. A term better known for symbolic visual abstracts is Mandala. I don't know if these qualify as Mandalas or Yantras in the traditional meanings, but what I had in mind in creating them was Yantras, so that's what I call them. You can call them whatever you like. You can also buy these nifty designs on stuff.

Elseweb article: Yantra: Hindu Tantric Diagrams [*](http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/yantra.html)

Coral and Marine

Center-balanced abstract, 6-point symmetry.

1997 Mar 19
Needlepoint

Center-balanced abstract, 6-point symmetry.

1997 Apr 2
Dark red hearts around an orange-yellow circle

Center-balanced abstract, 6-point symmetry.

1997 Apr 12
Spiral of Canes and Zigzags

Center-balanced abstract, 24-point symmetry.

1997 Apr 13
Horizontally-banded petals over daisies

Center-balanced abstract, 6-point symmetry.

1997 Aug 13
Mayan-ish squiggles around two inner rings of odd shapes

Center-balanced abstract, 7-point symmetry.

1997 Aug 22
Forty-nine spirals

Center-balanced abstract, 49-point symmetry.

1997 Oct 15
Yantra Fiesta

Center-balanced abstract, 8-point symmetry.

1997 Oct 17
Pastel explosion

Center-balanced abstract, 7-point symmetry.

1997 Dec 1
Cosmic balance

Center-balanced abstract, 7-point symmetry.

1997 Dec 1
Seraphic Host

Fourteen-point symmetry

2013 Apr 23
Guardian Gardens

Seventeen-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23
Creative Impulse

Seventeen-point symmetry

2013 Apr 23
Background Radiation

Twenty-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23
Energy Conversion

Seven-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23
Racing Inward

Nine-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23
Carrying Life

Ten-point symmetry

2013 Apr 23
Directed Reversion

Nine-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23
Expanding Faith

Sixteen-point symmetry

2013 Apr 23
Astral Projection

Ten-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23
Summer Noon

Sixteen-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23
Isolation Ends

Fifteen-point symmetry.

2013 Apr 23