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A yogini is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Greater
Yogini, 10th century Chola dynasty, Tamil Nadu, India. From the Smithsonian Institution.
Devi Yogini, Tibet 9th century
Cloth painting of Devi with a superimposed Yogini Chakra, wheel of the 64 Yoginis. Rajasthan, 19th century.
Nath yoginis Rajasthan 17th century
Yogini temples
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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 with goddesses especially Parvati, incarnating
Yogini
…masculine or feminine sense. A yogini, in some contexts, is the sacred feminine force made incarnate, as an aspect of Mahadevi, and revered in the yogini temples of India. These often revere a group of 64 yoginis, and are named as such, but can also have 42 or 81 yoginis. The names of the 64 yoginis vary in…
The Yogini temple at Mitaoli, on a rocky hilltop, open to the sky
A kapala, a cup carved from a human skull, used in tantra, including by yoginis
Chausathi Yogini Temple, Hirapur, Odisha, 2012. The yoginis have recently been venerated with a gift of headscarves.
One of the Hirapur yoginis, with an offering of flowers at her feet