Chakra is a concept originating in Hindu texts, featured in tantric

Tantra

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 and yogic

Kundalini yoga

Kundalini yoga is a physical, mental and spiritual discipline for developing strength, awareness, character, and consciousness. Practitioners call Kundalini yoga the yoga of awareness because it focuses primarily on practices that expand sensory awareness and intuition in order to raise individual...

 traditions of Hinduism

Hinduism

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 and Buddhism

Vajrayana

Vajrayāna Buddhism is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle...

. Its name derives from the Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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 word for "wheel

Wheel

A wheel is a device that allows heavy objects to be moved easily through rotating on an axle through its center, facilitating movement or transportation while supporting a load, or performing labor in machines. Common examples found in transport applications. A wheel, together with an axle,...

" or "turning

Turning

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" ( चक्रं ˈtʃəkrə̃, pronounced ˈtʃəkrə in Hindi; Pali

Páli

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: cakka चक्क, Thai

Thai language

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: จักระ, Telugu: చక్ర, Tamil

Tamil language

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: சக்கரம், Kannada: ಚಕ್ರ, Chinese

Chinese language

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: 轮, ; khorlo).

Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices

Vortex

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 which, according to traditional Indian medicine, are believed to exist in the surface of the subtle body

Subtle body

A subtle body is one of a series of psycho-spiritual constituents of living beings, according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings...

 of living beings.