Mandala inspired by the Altar Table with Mandala of Female Tantric Enlightened Being (Vajrayogini) held by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Yogapedia explains Tantra Tantra is a life-embracing philosophy, loosely defined as a path to liberation. It consists of a wide variety of practices, many of which transgressed the social and religious boundaries of the time in which Tantra emerged. Tantra teaches that everything is sacred, including the traditionally profane or impure—for example, sexual rites and engagement with the taboo, such as intoxicants. As such, Tantra has gained an erroneous reputation for advocating uninhibited sex, when really it simply teaches a direct engagement with sexual energy, The Tantric worldview sees all material reality as animated by divine feminine energy known as Shakti. Tantric goddess worship challenges the traditional roles of women, representing femininity as erotic and powerful. Tantra uniquely intertwines the destructive and the maternal in its depiction of goddesses, most prominently in the cases of Durga and Kali, both of whom are simultaneously defined as warrior goddesses and mother figures. Mandala unique, original and inspired by the Altar Table with Mandala of Female Tantric Enlightened Being (Vajrayogini) held by the Art Institute of Chicago which is in the public domain. Mandala though is exclusive to Alamy.
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