Yogini temples
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title:
Yogini temples
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The Yogini temples of India are 9th to 12th century roofless hypaethral shrines to the yoginis, female masters of yoga in Hindu tantra, broadly equated with goddesses especially Parvati, incarnating the sacred feminine force. They remained largely unknown and unstudied by scholars until late in the 20th century. Several of the shrines have niches for 64 yoginis, so are called Chausath Yogini Temples; others have 42 or 81 niches, implying different sets of goddesses, though they too are often cal
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9th to 12th century roofless hypaethral Hindu shrines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogini_temples
date created:
2020-10-26T10:00:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T10:22:55Z
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