dakini
Buddhist spiritual messenger
A dakini is a female spirit or deity in Tibetan Buddhism and Hindu tantra, often depicted as a fierce, sky-going figure who embodies enlightened energy.
Dakinis serve as guides, protectors, or messengers in spiritual practice, appearing in meditation and dreams.
In Western contexts, the term sometimes describes a woman embodying wild feminine wisdom or spiritual power. (Capitalized Dakini is identical in meaning.)
Female meditation practitioner
- tantraEsoteric spiritual discipline
- mandalaCircular spiritual diagram
- TibetanOf a Himalayan region
- thangkaTibetan religious fabric painting
consort · initiation · empowerment · wrathful · Tara · ritual · bliss
Delicate beyond earthly measure
- femininePertaining to women
- shapeshifterBeing altering its form
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
- messengerOne who delivers communications
guardian · wrathful · fierce · enchantress · supernatural · protector · mystical · apparition
Deep perceptive understanding
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- realizationGrasping what's true
luminosity · emptiness · clarity · knowing · discernment · gnosis · sacred feminine · inner wisdom
Quality of not lasting
- deathCessation of life
- transformationThorough change in form
- ego dissolutionDisappearance of personal identity
- fearlessnessComplete lack of dread
transcendence · samsara · nirvana · severance · bones · liberation · breakthrough
yogini
Female meditation practitioner
thangka · consort · initiation · empowerment · wrathful · Tara · ritual · bliss
ethereal
Delicate beyond earthly measure
- femininePertaining to women
- shapeshifterBeing altering its form
- otherworldlySeemingly not earthly
messenger · guardian · wrathful · fierce · enchantress · supernatural · protector · mystical · apparition · phantasm
insight
Deep perceptive understanding
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
realization · luminosity · emptiness · clarity · knowing · discernment · gnosis · sacred feminine · inner wisdom · transmission
impermanence
Quality of not lasting
- deathCessation of life
- transformationThorough change in form
- ego dissolutionDisappearance of personal identity
fearlessness · transcendence · samsara · nirvana · severance · bones · liberation · breakthrough
- Hindu-Buddhist mythologyVishnu, Shiva, Brahma, Krishna, Rama
- Tibetan BuddhismBuddha, Tibet, Dalai Lama, lama, lamas
- Buddhist spiritsdevas, naga, nagas, hungry ghost, apsara
- Tantric Buddhismtantra, yogini, consort, deity, skull cup
- Tantric yogaclear light, chakra, prana, kundalini, inner fire
- VajrayanaTibetan Buddhism, tantra, mandala, mudra, mudras
dakinimara
Large South American rodent
demon · hungry ghost · rakshasa · ignorance