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Vajrayogini Temple

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Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
Vajrayogini Temple
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Kathmandu, Nepal

Vajrayoginī is a Tantric Buddhist female Buddha and a ḍākiṇī. Vajrayoginī's essence is great passion , a transcendent passion that is free of selfishness and illusion — she intensely works for the well-being of others and for the destruction of ego clinging. She is seen as being ideally suited for people with strong passions, providing the way to transform those passions into enlightened virtues.She is an Anuttarayoga Tantra iṣṭadevatā and her practice includes methods for preventing ordinary death, intermediate state and rebirth , and for transforming all mundane daily experiences into higher spiritual paths. Practices associated with her are Chöd and the Six Yogas of Naropa. Vajrayoginī is often described with the epithet sarvabuddhaḍākiṇī, meaning the ḍākiṇī who is the Essence of all Buddhas.According to scholar Miranda Shaw, Vajrayoginī is inarguably the supreme deity of the Tantric pantheon. No male Buddha, including her divine consort, Heruka-Cakrasaṃvara, approaches her in metaphysical or practical import.
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