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In the Chakrasaṃvara Tantra, Vajrayoginī appears as his yab-yum consort, [5] to become a stand-alone practice of Anuttarayoga Tantra in its own right. [6] The practice of Vajrayoginī belongs to the Mother Tantra ( Wylie : ma rgyud ) class of Anuttarayoga Tantras along with other tantras such as the Cakrasaṃvara and Hevajra Tantras .
Often, Vajravarahi is conflated iconographically with Vajrayogini. She is sometimes called the 'two-faced' Vajrayogini ( shal nyi ma ) [ 7 ] because of the sow's head. The major iconographic differences are reflected in Vajravarahi's dancing posture and her sow's head symbol, while Vajrayogini is in a standing posture, has a damaru (drum) in ...
In 1960 and 1961, after he and the Dalai Lama had fled to India, he gave the Dalai Lama the major empowerments of Heruka Five Deities according to Ghantapa, Vajrayogini according to Naropa, and other initiations. In 1962 he gave him the empowerment of the Body Mandala of Heruka and taught generation stage and completion stage of this Tantra.
Other forms of the deities are also known with varying numbers of limbs and features, such as a two armed version. According to the Buddhist Tantric scholar Abhayakaragupta, the deity's mandala is described thus: In the Samvara mandala there is a variegated lotus atop Mount Sumeru within an adamantine tent (vajrapañjara). Placed on it is a ...
The deities of the mandala are classified into various sets of families or clans (kula) as follows: [55] Three families representing body, speech, and mind; the left, right, and central channels; to the realms of desire, form, and formlessness and to the three bodies of the Buddha.
The Three Roots formulation also fits into the framework of the Trikāya ('three bodies') of a Buddha where they are seen as equating to the following forms: the protector is the body, the yidam is the Speech and the lama is the mind. According to the Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols:
The Vidhyeshvari Vajra Yogini Temple - also known as the Bijeśvarī Vajrayoginī, [2] Bidjeshwori Bajra Jogini, [3] Bijayaswar, Bidjeswori, or Visyasvari Temple [1] - is a Newar Buddhist temple in the Kathmandu valley dedicated to the Vajrayāna Buddhist deity Vajrayoginī (or Bajra Jogini in the Newar language) in her form as Akash Yogini.
Heruka represents wrathful imagery with indivisible emptiness (), bliss, peace, wisdom, compassion (), and love.Herukas represent unified consciousness, with emptiness being a reflection of "non-phenomena" or emptiness which is "all love," or removal of imagery to reach universal love, mercy, and compassion-mind.