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In Hinduism, there are diverse approaches to conceptualizing God and gender.Many Hindus focus upon impersonal Absolute which is genderless.Other Hindu traditions conceive God as bigender (both female and male), alternatively as either male or female, while cherishing gender henotheism, that is without denying the existence of other gods in either gender.
Ardhanarishvara is depicted as half-male and half-female, equally split down the middle. Ardhanarishvara represents the synthesis of masculine and feminine energies of the universe ( Purusha and Prakriti ) and illustrates how Shakti , the female principle of God, is inseparable from (or the same as, according to some interpretations) Shiva, the ...
Sikh personal names are often compounds, whose constituent components (often derived from Sanskrit [6]) are used for both male and female names. [5] An example of such a name is one beginning with bal- (from the Sanskrit word 'bala', meaning "strength") and ending in -inder (from Indra ), becoming Balinder . [ 5 ]
Ira (/ ˈ iː r ə / or / ˈ aɪər ə / or / ˈ aɪ r ə /) is a male and female given name. As a Sansrkit male name, its meaning is that of the wind god, Vayu. As a female name its meaning is "the Earth". She is daughter of Daksha Prajapati and is wife of Kashyapa Maharishi and she is mother of plants, creepers and trees. In short she is the ...
Samira/Samīra, an Arabic female given name and a Sanskrit male given name; References This page was last edited on 24 June 2024, at 23:52 ...
In other instances, just ḍākinī was used for female practitioners, while male practitioners were just known as yogi. Padmasambhava was known as a yogi and Yeshe Tsogyal, a Tibetan princess, yogini and consort of Padmasambhava, as a ḍākinī. The scholar Miranda Shaw stated that "In Sanskrit there is only one word, Dakini. There are only ...
This "Family name (surname), Given name" format differs from that used in North India, where the family name typically appears last. This practice also contrasts with that of other parts of South India, where family names are little used. These differences can sometimes cause confusion within India and rest of the world. [42]
A yogini (Sanskrit: योगिनी, IAST: yoginī) 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 Tibet.