Guanyin

The supreme wisdom ḍākinī who serves as a yidam (iṣṭa-devatā) of the higher tantras is Vajrayoginī, “the personification of vajra emptiness.”55 Yidam is a shortened form of yid-kyi-damtsik, or sacred bondage of the mind. The practice of the yidam deity in her or his maṇḍala is what binds the practitioner irrevocably to the enlightened sanity within

For the male, she joins the qualities of sensuality with reminders of death from the charnel ground, arousing lust and revulsion at the same moment. Her radiant body is beautiful and luminously empty. The bliss she bestows is not ordinary sexual bliss; it is yogic bliss that arises from the realization of impermanence, emptiness, and radiant appear

Compassion is not true compassion unless it is active. Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion, is often represented in Tibetan iconography as having a thousand eyes that see the pain in all corners of the universe, and a thousand arms to reach out to all corners of the universe to extend his help.

If we see the yidam as visually unattractive,

While she may be young, graceful, and comely, the object of desire, she shows her body to be empty and as vast as limitless space; in her heart is revealed the ultimate nature of reality.