Chinnamastakā & How To Actually Make Love

About this episode

The episode explores the complexities of Mā Chinnamastakā and compares her representation in different traditions of Goddess worship.

Over the years, we've done quite a few lectures on Mā Chinnamastakā, one of the most mysterious and often among the most feared from of Mā with a very complex rasa-profile, at least as far as Her iconography is concerned. In 2024, in Goddess Worship in Tantrik Buddhism | The Buddhist Chinnamastā we looked at a Tibetan Buddhist tantra for Vajrayoginī & compared it to a "Hindu" tantra for Chinnamastakā to demonstrate that the Goddess tradition is the same across sectarian lines! Then, in ...

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Host: Nishanth Selvalingam

Topics covered

• Mā Chinnamastakā
• Goddess Worship
• Tantrik Buddhism
• Vajrayoginī
• Hindu tantra
• iconography
• rasa-profile

Keywords

• Chinnamastakā
• Tantrik Buddhism
• Goddess tradition
• iconography
• rasa-profile
• Vajrayoginī
• Hindu tantra

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mā Chinnamastakā, Goddess Worship in Tantrik Buddhism, Vajrayoginī, Hindu tantra for Chinnamastakā

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