Yantra Craft And Katha Lanna Lineage

What is drawn on these pages

Readings of the illustrated pages, in the tradition's own vocabulary. Described by a vision pass; the quoted captions are transcribed from the page itself.

• Folio 18 · diagram — A tower-form yantra: a magic-number grid built up into the silhouette of a chedi (stupa), narrow at the crowning tier and widening through stepped registers to a broad base, with two short arms projecting left and right near the mid-body. Every cell holds a Tham Lanna numeral; read across and down, the rows and columns form the recited number-square (yang lek) whose totals carry the spell. A short Tham Lanna caption arcs across the crown naming the yant. This is the yant chedi pattern — scripture-numbers laid into sacred architecture, so that drawing the diagram rebuilds a stupa in miniature. see the page →
• Folio 38 · diagram — A sole-of-the-foot yantra: a single large footprint outline (rounded heel below, five toe-lobes above) with a Tham Lanna caption at the toes. A dotted seam runs down the centre dividing the sole into left and right fields, each filled with a descending column of Tham Lanna letters and numerals. The foot-form recalls the Buddhapada (Buddha footprint) repurposed as charm-ground: syllables written into the sole are trodden and thereby empowered — a yant meant to be inscribed low, where it will be walked upon or worn beneath the body. see the page →
• Folio 59 · diagram — A caryatid yantra: a tall multi-tiered obelisk of stacked magic-number cells — triangular-hatched upper registers narrowing to a finial above a dense square grid — held aloft by a squatting frontal figure. The bearer (broad face, patterned loincloth, knees splayed, both arms raised overhead) lifts the whole number-tower on its hands, with a small syllable-cluster written across its chest. This is the supported-tower / yant thun pattern: a guardian or bearer figure carries the empowered grid, giving the abstract numbers a living support. see the page →
• Folio 118 · diagram — A yant worksheet rather than a finished figure: four separate number-groups, each headed by a Tham Lanna numeral (1, 2, 3, 4), set out as small blocks of stacked Tham Lanna digits down the left, with cursive annotations in the right margin keying each group to its use. This is the reckoning behind a yant — the component number-sequences (yang lek) a practitioner assembles and totals before laying them into a grid. A faint seam runs down the page centre dividing worksheet from notes. see the page →
• Folio 138 · diagram — A small figural drawing centred on the leaf: a seated rounded form — read as a meditating figure or a lotus-borne mound — from whose crown a segmented unalom spirals upward and breaks into a rising flame, with scattered droplet-marks to either side. Tham Lanna captions run above and below. The design is a devotional heart-yant: the coiled unalom and flame mark the rising of empowered breath or the seed-syllable from the crown, the captions naming the katha it carries. see the page →
• Folio 140 · diagram — A figural heart-syllable yant: a symmetrical face-or-crown emblem — a central rounded visage with a small seed-glyph at its middle, framed by two great curling arms/horns that sweep outward and hook back like a crown or moustache. Loose Tham Lanna letters float above and to the sides. This is a hua chai (heart-of-the-katha) figure: the essential syllables of a spell compressed into one anthropomorphic emblem, meant to be memorised and drawn as a single stroke-cluster. see the page →