Sahasrara

Sahasrara is the crown chakra in Hindu and yogic traditions, associated with spiritual liberation and depicted as a thousand-petaled lotus.

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Moksha: Moksha is liberation from rebirth and the cycle of worldly existence in Indian religious traditions. Sahasrara is associated with the spiritual liberation described by this Hindu concept.
Chakra: A chakra is a center in subtle-body systems of Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Sahasrara is one chakra within systems that map spiritual centers in the body.
Sat-Cakra-Nirupana: Sat-Cakra-Nirupana is a sixteenth-century Sanskrit text describing six chakras and the crown center. Its account is a major source for the elaborate lotus imagery associated with Sahasrara.
Kashmir Shaivism: Kashmir Shaivism is a Hindu philosophical and devotional tradition centered on Shiva and consciousness. Its accounts of liberation and consciousness do not reduce spiritual realization to a single chakra.
Kundalini: Kundalini is a spiritual force in Indian traditions, often depicted as a serpent coiled at the base of the spine. Yogic accounts connect the ascent of Kundalini through the chakras with awakening at Sahasrara.
Subtle body: The subtle body is a nonphysical body described in Indian religious and contemplative traditions. Sahasrara belongs to subtle-body maps rather than anatomical descriptions.
Shat Chakra Bheda: Shat Chakra Bheda is a Sanskrit work on piercing or traversing the six chakras through yogic practice. It belongs to the textual tradition that frames the crown center as the culmination of ascent.
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a classical text outlining an eight-limbed path of yoga. Its central framework describes liberation without presenting the familiar seven-chakra map.
Sahasrara in Tantric Buddhism: Sahasrara is a crown-center concept appearing in some modern presentations of Tantric Buddhist subtle-body systems. Its use outside Hindu contexts shows that crown-center meanings vary across traditions.
Ajna: Ajna is the brow chakra, commonly associated with insight and perception in modern chakra systems. It is commonly placed immediately below Sahasrara in seven-chakra presentations.