Guanyin

Reflecting her yogic roots, however, the ḍākinī symbolizes embodiment in a slightly different way from domestically bound women in most cultures. Her body is beautiful and voluptuous as theirs may be, but it is naked and adorned with shards of bone, skull-cups of blood, and rotting heads, showing her unique relationship with embodiment. She is asso

For the young prince and other renunciant practitioners of pre-Vajrayāna depictions, the bodies of women came to represent the deceptiveness of saṃsāra.

If we see the yidam as visually unattractive,

But the deities visualized are not merely token symbols; they reflect the essential power of the subtle body and its potential to clear away confusion and open the gates of wisdom. For this reason, the realm of subtle-body yoga is the realm of the ḍākinī in Tibetan Buddhism.

any study of the feminine in Tibetan Buddhism must also include the masculine, the heruka who is a symbol of skillful means and compassion.

the Coemergent Mother Vajrayoginī, is the spiritual subjectivity of all beings, whether female or male.