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VAJRAVARAHI :: BUDDHIST VARAHI

  The Buddhist Tantric Goddess Vajrayogni and his cult lowered in India between the tenth and twelfth centuries C.E .The Buddhist text talks about various sadhana of this goddess .Sadhana is a meditation and ritual text—literally, a "means of attainment" (sddhanam)—that centers upon a chosen deity, in this case, upon Vajrayogini or one of her various manifestations.Goddess Vajravarahi is one of the form/emanation/manifestation of Vajrayogni.The Guhyasamayasddhanam (GSS) is primary text which talk about her particularly in her form as Vajravarahi.  Who is Vajrayogini? The texts refer to her reverentially as a "blessed one" (bhagavati), as a "deity" (devata) or "goddess" (devi). She is divine in the sense that she embodies enlightenment; and as she is worshiped at the center of a mandala of other enlightened beings, the supreme focus of devotion, she has the status of a buddha. In the opening verse to the Vajravarahi Sadhana, the author salutes