Vajrayogini’s Family Tree

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Family

• Chakrasamvara(spouse)— Consort

  In Indian Vajrayana, Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini form the central yab-yum pair of the Chakrasamvara Tantra. The mahasiddhas Luipa, Ghantapa, and Naropa each received distinct lineage transmissions of this practice, which spread from Nalanda and Vikramashila across the Buddhist world.

Equivalent to

• Vajrayogini(Tibetan)

  Vajrayogini was transmitted directly from Indian Vajrayana into Tibetan Buddhist practice, where she became one of the most important yidam deities and the supreme dakini of the Kagyu and Sakya lineages.

Associated with

• Dakini

  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.