• The Yogini Tantra is a 16th- or 17th-century tantric text by an unknown author from either Assam or Cooch Behar and is dedicated to the worship of Hindu...
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    conjuncts instead of Indic text. A yogini (Sanskrit: योगिनी, IAST: yoginī) is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term...
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    The traditional accounts from Kalika Purana (10th century) and the Yogini Tantra too record that the goddess Kamakhya is of Kirata origin, and that the...
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    Gray's translation is: Great King of Yoginī Tantras called the Śrī Cakrasaṃvara (Śrīcakrasaṃvara-nāma-mahayoginī-tantra-rāja). The text is also called the...
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  • the Kālacakra Tantra. The Sakya tradition also considers Hevajra to be a non-dual tantra but other traditions classify it as a yoginī-tantra. The practice...
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    Vajrayana (redirect from Buddhist Tantra)
    as "Yogini tantras" and represent the final form of development of Indian Buddhist tantras in the ninth and tenth centuries. The Kalachakra tantra developed...
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  • tantra Kāmākhyā tantra Tārā tantra Kaula tantra Matsya Sūkta / Tārā Kalpa Samayā tantra Vāmakeshvara tantra Tantrajā tantra Yoginī tantra Kula - Kulamārga...
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    of male virility and power. David Gordon White views Yogini cults as foundational to early tantra but disagrees with scholars who maintain that the roots...
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    call themselves Tantras. Later Tantric texts from the eighth century onward (termed variously Yogatantra, Mahayoga, and Yoginī Tantras) advocated union...
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    sores; and according to the Kochbiharer Itihas he died of smallpox. In Yogini Tantra, a 16th/17th century text describes Biswa Singha as the conqueror of...
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    The Yogini temples of India are 9th- to 12th-century roofless hypaethral shrines to the yoginis, female masters of yoga in Hindu tantra, broadly equated...
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    Tantric sex (redirect from Tantra sex)
    White (ed.). Tantra in Practice. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 442–443. ISBN 978-81-208-1778-4. White, David Gordon (2003). Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex"...
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    tantras are Saradatilaka Tantra of Lakshmanadesika (11th century), Kali Tantra (c. 15th century), Yogini Tantra, Sarvanandanatha's Sarvolassa Tantra,...
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    people of the region can also be derived from the Kalika Purana and the Yogini Tantra, both believed to be composed in this region around the early medieval...
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  • considered to be amongst the earliest of the Yoginī tantras. By the eleventh century CE the Mahāmāyā Tantra was circulating within monastic institutions...
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    Kali (section Tantra)
    The Kdmadd-tantra mentions that Kali is sacciddnanda or imperishable bliss and Brahman. In other texts like theYogini-tantra, Kamakhya-tantra and the Niruttara-tantra...
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    (2019). The Chausathi Yoginis of Hirapur: From Tantra to Tourism. Black Eagle. ISBN 978-1-64560-012-1. Dehejia, Vidya (1986). Yogini Cult and Temples: A...
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    Kundalini, Tantra. A yogini is a student of Tantra or an aspirant. A Bhairavi has succeeded in Tantra with the help of 64 yoginis. Yogini or Jogini are...
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    call themselves Tantras. Later Tantric texts from the eighth century onward (termed variously Yogatantra, Mahayoga, and Yogini Tantras) advocated union...
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    Chakra (section Hindu tantra)
    Gordon (2001). Tantra in Practice. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 25. ISBN 978-81-208-1778-4. White, David Gordon (2006). Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in...
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    Hevajra (redirect from Hevajra tantra)
    Hevajra's consort is Nairātmyā (Tibetan: བདག་མེད་མ་ bdag med ma). The Hevajra Tantra, a yoginītantra of the anuttarayogatantra class, is believed to have originated...
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    Yogini Temple of Ranipur Jharial in Balangir District, Odisha, is one of the circular, open air Yogini temples of India, dedicated to the 64 Yoginis....
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    "father" and "non-dual" tantras. "The Yoginī Tantras correspond to what later Tibetan commentators termed the "Mother Tantras" (ma rgyud)" (CST, p. 5)...
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    Jainism, a practitioner of tantra. In Hindu mythology, the god Shiva and the goddess Parvati are depicted as an emblematic yogi–yogini pair. In Classical Sanskrit...
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    of the human yoginis are shown eating severed human limbs. The 81 yoginis are described in the Mula Chakra of the Sri Matottara Tantra, which survives...
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    embellished in the locally composed Kalika Purana (10th–12th century), the Yogini Tantra (16th/17th century) and local lores and the legends became firmly attached...
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    dakini and lose her husband and son, thereby becoming a perfect yogini. The Shaktisamgama Tantra prescribes her worship only by the left-handed path (Vamamarga)...
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    legend constructed by the Brahmin pandits in the 16th or 17th century Yogini Tantra, its creation is credited to King Bhagadatta, who led the Kauravas in...
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  • western Kamrud (Kamrup) was inhabited by the Koch, Mech & Tharu. In Yogini Tantra, Koches were called as Kuvachas. According to the Fatiyah-i-Ibriah written...
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    century), and Kalika Purana (10th century)—and a late medieval source Yogini Tantra (16th century) though none of these claims are backed by any inscriptional...
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