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 projec 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 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 fi 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 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 fl 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 b see the page →