The Tibetan mkha' 'gro ma (dakini, 'sky-goer') and the Sanskrit dakini are the same class of female wisdom beings transmitted from Indian Vajrayana into Tibetan Buddhist practice.
Vajrayogini is the queen of the dakinis — the supreme embodiment of the dakini principle in Indian Vajrayana. The sixty-four yogini temples of medieval India were sites of dakini worship where Vajrayogini stood at the center of the mandala.
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