Vajrayoginī (Sanskrit: Vajrayoginī वज्रयोगिनी; Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་, Wylie: rdo rje rnal ’byor ma, Dorjé Naljorma) is an important figure in Buddhism...
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Pharping (section Phamting Vajrayogini temple)
Newar Buddhist Vajrayogini temples of the Nepal mandala which include the Sankhu Vajrayogini, Vidhyeshvari Vajrayogini, Phamting Vajrayogini, Guhyeshwari...
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ISBN 978-1-85828-899-4. English, Elizabeth (2002). "The Emergence of Vajrayogini". Vajrayoginī: Her Visualizations, Rituals and Forms. Boston: Wisdom Publications...
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2014. English, Elizabeth (2002). Vajrayoginī: her visualizations, rituals & forms: a study of the cult of Vajrayoginī in India (1st Wisdom ed.). Boston:...
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were so readily canonized in the following centuries. Deities like Vajrayogini, sexually suggestive and streaming with blood, overturn traditional separation...
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Vajravārāhī (category Vajrayogini)
Vajravarahi is conflated iconographically with Vajrayogini. Sometimes she is called the 'two-faced' Vajrayogini (shal nyi ma) because of the sow's head. The...
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Nepal) Painted 19th century Tibetan mandala of the Naropa tradition, Vajrayogini stands in the center of two crossed red triangles, Rubin Museum of Art...
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Sankhu (section Festival of Vajrayogini)
Sankhu. A lake also named Manichuda lies near the mountain. The temple of Vajrayogini (Bajrayogini, Khadgayogini), one of main identity of Sankhu, lies on...
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from the shape of a traditional Indian butcher's knife. Depictions of Vajrayogini typically contain the kartika as one of her attributes. In the iconography...
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Vidhyeshvari Vajra Yogini Temple (category Vajrayogini temples)
The Vidhyeshvari Vajra Yogini Temple - also known as the Bijeśvarī Vajrayoginī, Bidjeshwori Bajra Jogini, Bijayaswar, Bidjeswori, or Visyasvari Temple...
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sometimes as independent deities. The most prevalent wrathful dakinis are Vajrayogini and Vajravārāhī. A common form of imagery is the yab-yum of a Buddha...
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status as the embodiment of female deities such as the wild and nude Vajrayogini. The Candamaharosana Tantra (viii:29–30) states: Women are heaven, women...
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the legends of the Hindu god Krishna. They worship Saraswati shrine in Vajrayogini temples and celebrate the festival with their Hindu friends. Traditional...
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severed head") or Trikaya-vajrayogini ("triple-bodied Vajrayogini"). Chinnamunda is the severed-head form of goddess Vajrayogini (or Vajravarahi, a ferocious...
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Tantric art. Clockwise from upper left: Vajrayogini (Buddhist), Sri Yantra (Hindu), Kalachakra Mandala and Chakra illustration....
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female deity (often considered to be a full Buddha). The tantric dakini Vajrayogini is an important tantric meditation deity (yidam) in Tibetan Vajrayana...
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The practice of Vajrayogini evolved out of the Cakrasaṃvara practice and is now a de facto practice in its own right (Vajrayogini being the consort...
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sādhanā, the mindstream precipitates into a Saṃbhogakāya simulacrum of Vajrayoginī. In saṃbhogakāya attained through visualization, the sādhaka offers a...
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phenomenon" (chos-kyi 'byung-gnas). It is especially connected with Vajrayogini, and forms the center part of her mandala. In reality, it is in three...
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of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-07569-3. English, Elizabeth (2013). Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-861-71657-9...
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Bajrayogini Temple (category Vajrayogini temples)
temple having been built by King Pratap Malla in the sixteenth century. Vajrayogini is a Buddhist tantric deity, she is also conflated with Ugra Tara, a...
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only female master of the Sakya Vajrayoginī lineage. She is also considered a great siddha and an emanation of Vajrayoginī. She was born in Tibet and originally...
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10; 237.21; 238.4). In Nepalese Buddhism, the Buddhist tantric goddess Vajrayogini is "often worshiped interchangeably with Durga" during Durga festivals...
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ISBN 9781570627200. Nairatmya - Concept in Buddhism Sitatapatra Narodakini Saraswati Queen Maya Hariti Yakshini Prithvi Vajrayogini Tara (Buddhism)...
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meditation deities Chakrasamvara, Kalachakra, Hevajra, Yamantaka, and Vajrayogini, all of whom have a distinctive iconography, mandala, mantra, rites of...
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sometimes as independent deities. The most prevalent wrathful dakinis are Vajrayogini, Vajravārāhī, Nairatmya, and Kurukullā. Buddhist mythology overlapped...
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Wylie: nā ro mkha' spyod) is a deity in Vajrayana Buddhism similar to Vajrayogini (red, striding, bearing a vajra) who no longer appears [citation needed]...
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vajradhara's:: Interpretation of Heruka is similar to the female ḍākiṇī or buddha Vajrayogini. The Sanskrit term Heruka was translated into both Chinese and Tibetan...
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of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-07569-3. English, Elizabeth (2013). Vajrayogini: Her Visualization, Rituals, and Forms. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-861-71657-9...
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Tārā Mahākāla Hayagrīva Amitābha Bhaiṣajyaguru/Akṣobhya Guhyasamāja Vajrayoginī/Vajravārāhī Heruka/Cakrasaṃvara Yamāntaka Kālacakra Hevajra Chöd Vajrapāṇi...
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