The Chausathi Yoginis of Hirapur

The Chausathi Yoginis of Hirapur
Title The Chausathi Yoginis of Hirapur PDF eBook
Author Adyasha Das
Publisher
Pages 100
Release 2019-06-06
Genre Travel
ISBN 9781645600121

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This book is a compilation of research and readings on the Chausathi Yogini temple at Hirapur (near Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India). This book was motivated by the desire to delve deeply into the tantric roots in which the Yogini cult is embedded and to link it to the significance of this site as a potential cultural tourism destination.

The Yogini Poems

The Yogini Poems
Title The Yogini Poems PDF eBook
Author Adyasha Das
Publisher Black Eagle Books
Pages 102
Release 2020-06-13
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9781645600800

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This collection of poems is dedicated to the Yoginis the author has met in course of her research and travel. A pronounced sense of sacredness and spirituality characterizes these women of the mystic Yogini cult which venerates the all powerful Divine female figure, the "Yogini". The enigma of these tantric goddesses intrigued the author. These poems are a tribute to the forgotten Yoginis and are an attempt to write about the silence, light and space in the life and love meanderings of the Yogini.

Kiss of the Yogini

Kiss of the Yogini
Title Kiss of the Yogini PDF eBook
Author David Gordon White
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 393
Release 2006-07-07
Genre History
ISBN 022602783X

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For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day. Kiss of the Yogini focuses on what White identifies as the sole truly distinctive feature of South Asian Tantra: sexualized ritual practices, especially as expressed in the medieval Kaula rites. Such practices centered on the exchange of powerful, transformative sexual fluids between male practitioners and wild female bird and animal spirits known as Yoginis. It was only by "drinking" the sexual fluids of the Yoginis that men could enter the family of the supreme godhead and thereby obtain supernatural powers and transform themselves into gods. By focusing on sexual rituals, White resituates South Asian Tantra, in its precolonial form, at the center of religious, social, and political life, arguing that Tantra was the mainstream, and that in many ways it continues to influence contemporary Hinduism, even if reformist misunderstandings relegate it to a marginal position. Kiss of the Yogini contains White's own translations from over a dozen Tantras that have never before been translated into any European language. It will prove to be the definitive work for persons seeking to understand Tantra and the crucial role it has played in South Asian history, society, culture, and religion.

Sixty-four Yoginis

Sixty-four Yoginis
Title Sixty-four Yoginis PDF eBook
Author Anamika Roy
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Hindu sculpture
ISBN 9789384082123

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The Sixty-Four Yoginis are the lesser known forms of the Goddess Shakti in art and religion. Variously portrayed as malevolent goddesses, deities of tantric rituals, and yoginis of flesh and blood, they are seen as the sixty-four forms of the goddess and the sixty four embraces of Shiva and Shakti. Abandoned temples, stretching from Banda in Uttar Pradesh to Bolangir in Odisha, were once witness to the evolution of the mysterious cult of these goddesses. Shrouded in secrecy, knowledge about them is, till date, closely guarded by the tantric Acaryas. Sixty-Four Yoginis: Cult, Icons and Goddesses deciphers the complex forms of the Yoginis by engaging with the subject historically, aesthetically, theologically and anthropologically; identifies the Yoginis of the temple, of the Puranas, of the tantric texts, of folklore and finally of the Yogini Kaula; and examines the different layers of the complex phenomena based on rigorous fieldwork in the hitherto untraversed terrains where the Yoginis have their abode. The book offers valuable insights for researchers in the fields of religion, myth, culture, history and gender studies. The text of this handsomely produced volume is supplemented with a rich collection of photographs.

Yoginī, Cult and Temples

Yoginī, Cult and Temples
Title Yoginī, Cult and Temples PDF eBook
Author Vidya Dehejia
Publisher
Pages 258
Release 1986
Genre Cults
ISBN

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On yoginīs, minor form of Hindu goddesses belonging to tantric tradition.

Yogini

Yogini
Title Yogini PDF eBook
Author Shambhavi L. Chopra
Publisher SCB Distributors
Pages 200
Release 2010-04-28
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 8183281672

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Yogini: Unfolding the Goddess Within is a unique record of personal experiences that portray in its various fascinating episode the secrets of the magical world of Tantra. It shows how the gods and goddesses can manifest themselves within our daily lives, taking us from the mundane to the sublime and making our days and nights a dance of wonder and delight.

LAKSMI TANTRA

LAKSMI TANTRA
Title LAKSMI TANTRA PDF eBook
Author Sanjukta Gupta
Publisher Brill Archive
Pages 452
Release 1972-01-01
Genre Pāñcarātra
ISBN

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