YOGINI CULT AND TEMPLES: A TANTRIC TRADITION
Book Details + Condition: National Museum (New Delhi, India). First Edition, 1987. Large hardcover measuring 13" x 10" (extra shipping charges required). 239 pages; illustrated throughout. Very scarce. Vidya Dehejia’s thorough study of the Yogini cult, worship and temples. Yoginis were a minor form of Hindu goddesses, incarnating the sacred feminine force, and belonging to the tantric tradition. They were the female masters of yoga, and symbols of fertility, vegetation, illness, death, yoga and magic. Many believe these yoginis to be the female counterparts of male gods – such as Ganeshani and Narasimhi. The Yogini temples of India are 9th to 12th century roofless hypaethral shrines devoted to the yoginis; they remained largely unknown and unstudied by scholars until the late 20th century. Contents include:
- The Many Aspects of Yoginis
- The Circle and Cakras of Yoginis
- Occult Powers and Cult Practices
- Origins and Spread of the Yogini Cult
- Yogini Temples
- And much more.
A solid and clean copy of this now very scarce and beautiful book, with firm binding; light foxing to first and last few pages; and an otherwise clean interior. The book has been protected with a clear plastic cover.
