Sublime

Khandro Rinpoche was trained in both Kagyü and Nyingma traditions, often the only girl among many monks and tülkus.

As for these women, the dakinis have a gift to present to you too. They offer a feminine model that is fierce, wise, spiritual, and embodied. They give us the energy of the undomesticated feminine; they are not meek or submissive. They are luminous, subtle spiritual energy, the gatekeepers and the guardians of the unconditioned wisdom and sacred ea

Certainly she is called an incarnate ḍākinī, but it is not common for ḍākinīs to receive a monastic education or to inherit the roles and responsibilities of a tülku.

she dressed in yoginī clothing, wearing her hair long and combed back without any ornamentation.

Dharmabodhi Sarasvatī.

The Samding ḍākinī served as abbess to a monks’ monastery

I was particularly aided by an early interview with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan yogin-scholar of the Kagyü lineage whose spontaneous teachings emerged as foundational in my understanding of the ḍākinī.

Her spiritual practice was called Chöd (pronounced “chuh”), which means “to cut through.” She developed this form of meditation, unusual even in her time in Tibet, and it generated such amazing results that it became very popular, spreading to all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism and beyond.