The Yogini Tantra is a 16th- or 17th-century tantric text by an unknown author either from 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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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 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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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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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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Buddhist tantric literature (redirect from Buddhist Tantras)
call themselves Tantras. Later Tantric texts from the eighth century onward (termed variously Yogatantra, Mahayoga, and Yoginī Tantras) advocated union...
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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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Hindu tantric literature (redirect from Hindu tantra)
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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Biswa Singha (section In Yogini Tantra)
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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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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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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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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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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Sarvamnaya Tantra (Devanagari सर्वाम्नाय तन्त्र, IAST Sarvāmnāya Tantra) is a tantric tradition originating within Nepal. Sarvāmnāya translates literally...
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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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fabrications from late medieval sources, such as 16th-century work Yogini Tantra gives the boundaries of Kamapitha and other three pithas, the same work...
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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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tantras are Saradatilaka Tantra of Lakshmanadesika (11th century), Kali Tantra (c. 15th century), Yogini Tantra, Sarvanandanatha's Sarvolassa Tantra,...
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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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suggested that these divisions are possible later fabrications. The Yogini Tantra (16th- 17th-century), mentions the Kamarupa Pithas, the same work which...
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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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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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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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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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Buddhist texts (section Buddhist tantras)
call themselves Tantras. Later Tantric texts from the eighth century onward (termed variously Yogatantra, Mahayoga, and Yogini Tantras) advocated union...
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strong, cruel Kirata people. As per the legends constructed in the Yogini Tantra, the tank Dighalipukhuri located in the heart of the city was dug by...
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Maithuna (Devanagari: मैथुन) is a Sanskrit term for sexual intercourse within Tantra (Tantric sex), or alternatively for the sexual fluids generated or the couple...
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collected reference from Hindu religious text such as the Kalika Purana, Yogini Tantra etc and created legends that they originally belonged to the kshatriya...
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