Dakinis serve as the guardians of terma, the hidden treasure teachings of Padmasambhava, protecting the texts encoded in dakini script until the prophesied tertön arrives to reveal them at the appointed time.
Yeshe Tsogyal and Mandarava, the two principal consorts of Padmasambhava, are revered as the foremost human dakinis — women who attained full enlightenment and embodied the wisdom dakini principle in living form.
Vajrayogini is the supreme dakini, the queen of the mkha' 'gro ma, whose red dancing form with curved knife and skull cup embodies the highest expression of enlightened feminine wisdom in Tibetan tantric practice.
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.
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