The Yogini Tantra is a 16th- or 17th-century tantric text by an unknown author either from Assam or Cooch Behar[1] and is dedicated to the worship of Hindu goddesses Kali and Kamakhya. Apart from religious and philosophical themes, this voluminous tantra contains some historical information.
The text is especially important for the vamachara form of tantric worship.
The Northeast Indian Yogini Tantra manuscript referenced here should not be confused with a classification of Vajrayana Tantras known as Anuttarayoga Tantras which include a sub-class known as the Mother Tantras which includes a further sub-classification known as the Yogini Tantras.
^Urban (2015), p. 74: "One of the most explicit descriptions of Tantric sexual rites occurs in Yogini tantra, a sixteenth-century text from Cooch Behar, immediately adjacent to Assam"
The YoginiTantra is a 16th- or 17th-century tantric text by an unknown author either from Assam or Cooch Behar and is dedicated to the worship of Hindu...
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of male virility and power. David Gordon White views Yogini cults as foundational to early tantra but disagrees with scholars who maintain that the roots...
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as "Yoginitantras" and represent the final form of development of Indian Buddhist tantras in the ninth and tenth centuries. The Kalachakra tantra developed...
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fabrications from late medieval sources, such as 16th-century work YoginiTantra gives the boundaries of Kamapitha and other three pithas, the same work...
call themselves Tantras. Later Tantric texts from the eighth century onward (termed variously Yogatantra, Mahayoga, and YoginiTantras) advocated union...
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century), and Kalika Purana (10th century)—and a late medieval source YoginiTantra (16th century) though none of these claims are backed by any inscriptional...
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strong, cruel Kirata people. As per the legends constructed in the YoginiTantra, the tank Dighalipukhuri located in the heart of the city was dug by...
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