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What (who) is yogini - definition
Yogini
![Devi Yogini,[[Tibet]]9th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nairatmya150.jpg?width=200 "Devi Yogini,[[Tibet]]9th century")
![Cloth painting of [[Devi]] with a superimposed Yogini Chakra, wheel of the 64 Yoginis. Rajasthan, 19th century.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Devi with Yogini Chakra Rajasthan C19th.jpg?width=200 "Cloth painting of [[Devi]] with a superimposed Yogini Chakra, wheel of the 64 Yoginis. Rajasthan, 19th century.")
![Nath yoginis[[Rajasthan]]17th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/17th century Hindu female Nath yogi painting.jpg?width=200 "Nath yoginis[[Rajasthan]]17th century")
![Nath yoginis[[Rajasthan]]18th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Female Ascetics (Yoginis) LACMA M.2011.156.4 (1 of 2).jpg?width=200 "Nath yoginis[[Rajasthan]]18th century")
![Chausathi Yogini Temple, Hirapur]], [[Odisha]], 2012. The yoginis have recently been venerated with the gift of headscarves.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoginis in a circular format.JPG?width=200 "Chausathi Yogini Temple, Hirapur]], [[Odisha]], 2012. The yoginis have recently been venerated with the gift of headscarves.")
![One of the Yoginis of Chausathi Yogini Temple at Hirapur, [[Odisha]]. There is an offering of flowers at the yogini's feet.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hirapur ei02-47.jpg?width=200 "One of the Yoginis of Chausathi Yogini Temple at Hirapur, [[Odisha]]. There is an offering of flowers at the yogini's feet.")
![8th-century [[Chausath Yogini Temple, Morena]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chausath Yogini Temple (16313518811).jpg?width=200 "8th-century [[Chausath Yogini Temple, Morena]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]")
![Sandstone yogini[[Madhya Pradesh]]. [[Pratihara]] period9th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sandstone Yogini from Madhya Pradesh.JPG?width=200 "Sandstone yogini[[Madhya Pradesh]]. [[Pratihara]] period9th century")
![Yogini Vrishanana[[Uttar Pradesh]]10th-11th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/National Museum in Delhi 6 - traveling Yogini.jpg?width=200 "Yogini Vrishanana[[Uttar Pradesh]]10th-11th century")
![Yogini,[[Tamil Nadu]]16th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/devi yogini.jpg?width=200 "Yogini,[[Tamil Nadu]]16th century")
FEMALE PRACTITIONER OF YOGA
The Mother (yogini); Jogini; 64 Yogini; 64 Jogini; Yoginī
A Yogini (Sanskrit: योगिनी, IAST: ) is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers in Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Greater Tibet. The term is the feminine Sanskrit word of the masculine yogi, while the term "yogin" is used in neutral, masculine or feminine sense.
yogini
FEMALE PRACTITIONER OF YOGA
The Mother (yogini); Jogini; 64 Yogini; 64 Jogini; Yoginī
[j?g'i:ni:, ?j??g?'ni:]
¦ noun (plural yoginis) a female yogi.
Origin
from Sanskrit yogini.
Yogini temples
![The cremation ground of Chaumsathi Ghat (far left) on the [[River Ganges]] at [[Varanasi]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chaumsathi Ghat (far left) Varanasi (4750599398).jpg?width=200 "The cremation ground of Chaumsathi Ghat (far left) on the [[River Ganges]] at [[Varanasi]]")
![Gadarmal temple of the Mothers]], Badoh, [[Uttar Pradesh]], has 42 niches for yoginis.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gadarmal Temple Badoh.jpg?width=200 "Gadarmal temple of the Mothers]], Badoh, [[Uttar Pradesh]], has 42 niches for yoginis.")
![A [[kapala]], a cup carved from a human skull, used in tantra, including by [[yogini]]s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kapala skull cup.jpg?width=200 "A [[kapala]], a cup carved from a human skull, used in tantra, including by [[yogini]]s")
![Sansad Bhavan]] in [[New Delhi]], home of [[India's parliament]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Parliament House, British India (1926).png?width=200 "Sansad Bhavan]] in [[New Delhi]], home of [[India's parliament]]")
![skull-cup]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yogini, South India, Tamil Nadu, Kaveripakkam, 10th century AD, granite - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - DSC05990.JPG?width=200 "skull-cup]].")
![Plan; scholars have noted the resemblance to a ''[[yoni]]''-pedestal](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hirapur yogini temple plan.svg?width=200 "Plan; scholars have noted the resemblance to a ''[[yoni]]''-pedestal")
![A ''yoni''-pedestal with central [[Shiva lingam]], for comparison](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shiva Lingam with Gauripatta at Mahasthangarh Museum.jpg?width=200 "A ''yoni''-pedestal with central [[Shiva lingam]], for comparison")
![Statue of [[Nateshwar]], Shiva as Lord of Dance, in central shrine](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yogini statues.JPG?width=200 "Statue of [[Nateshwar]], Shiva as Lord of Dance, in central shrine")
![Khajuraho's Yogini temple]] is unusual in being rectangular.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khajuraho,Chausath-Yogini-Tempel.jpg?width=200 "Khajuraho's Yogini temple]] is unusual in being rectangular.")
![yogini temple at Mitaoli]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chausath Yogini Temple (16129494537).jpg?width=200 "yogini temple at Mitaoli]]")
.jpg?width=200 "Detail of the Shiva shrine")
![Inside the yogini temple, [[Bhedaghat]], [[Jabalpur]]; the central shrine with shikhara is of later date.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chausath Yogini Temple, Jabalpur.JPG?width=200 "Inside the yogini temple, [[Bhedaghat]], [[Jabalpur]]; the central shrine with shikhara is of later date.")
![Yogini, seated in [[Lalitasana]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chausath Yogini temple.jpg?width=200 "Yogini, seated in [[Lalitasana]]")
9TH TO 12TH CENTURY ROOFLESS HYPAETHRAL HINDU SHRINES
Chausath Yogini Temple; Yogini temple
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.
