Women in Early Śākta Tantras: Dūtī, Yoginī and Sādhakī

Rather than studying various manifestations of the “divine feminine” in Hindu tantric texts, this paper proposes to examine the ritual role of women in the earliest (seventh to ninth centuries CE) scriptural sources that teach the cult of goddesses and other divine females (yoginīs). Women have thr...

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Autor principal:	Judit Törzsök
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	female practitioners yoginī cult women in early medieval India women’s rights to perform ritual tantric ritual Hindu śākta scriptures Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a99ddec6c610429a878d16ca6a4c01c32021-11-27T12:53:35ZWomen in Early Śākta Tantras: Dūtī, Yoginī and Sādhakī10.12797/CIS.16.2014.16.131732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/a99ddec6c610429a878d16ca6a4c01c32021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1539https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 Rather than studying various manifestations of the “divine feminine” in Hindu tantric texts, this paper proposes to examine the ritual role of women in the earliest (seventh to ninth centuries CE) scriptural sources that teach the cult of goddesses and other divine females (yoginīs). Women have three main ritual roles in these sources, which often overlap: they may be (1) consorts in sexual rites (dūtī/śakti), (2) witch-like semi-divine yoginīs, who transmit the doctrine and help practitioners to obtain supernatural powers, and (3) female practitioners (sādhakī/bhaginī), who are initiated in the same way as male ones. Concerning the last category, it is shown that women had the right to receive full initiation according to early śākta scriptures (which was not the case according to mainstream śaiva Tantras) and were able to practice the same rites for the same purposes as men. Judit TörzsökKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticlefemale practitionersyoginī cultwomen in early medieval Indiawomen’s rights to perform ritualtantric ritualHindu śākta scripturesIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 16 (2021)
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topic	female practitioners yoginī cult women in early medieval India women’s rights to perform ritual tantric ritual Hindu śākta scriptures Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
spellingShingle	female practitioners yoginī cult women in early medieval India women’s rights to perform ritual tantric ritual Hindu śākta scriptures Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Judit Törzsök Women in Early Śākta Tantras: Dūtī, Yoginī and Sādhakī
description	Rather than studying various manifestations of the “divine feminine” in Hindu tantric texts, this paper proposes to examine the ritual role of women in the earliest (seventh to ninth centuries CE) scriptural sources that teach the cult of goddesses and other divine females (yoginīs). Women have three main ritual roles in these sources, which often overlap: they may be (1) consorts in sexual rites (dūtī/śakti), (2) witch-like semi-divine yoginīs, who transmit the doctrine and help practitioners to obtain supernatural powers, and (3) female practitioners (sādhakī/bhaginī), who are initiated in the same way as male ones. Concerning the last category, it is shown that women had the right to receive full initiation according to early śākta scriptures (which was not the case according to mainstream śaiva Tantras) and were able to practice the same rites for the same purposes as men.
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title	Women in Early Śākta Tantras: Dūtī, Yoginī and Sādhakī
title_short	Women in Early Śākta Tantras: Dūtī, Yoginī and Sādhakī
title_full	Women in Early Śākta Tantras: Dūtī, Yoginī and Sādhakī
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Women in Early Śākta Tantras: Dūtī, Yoginī and Sādhakī

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