Bhairavi
भैरवी bhairavīThe Goddess as the consort and power (Shakti) of Bhairava; in the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra she is the questioner who asks Bhairava for the essence of ultimate reality. Also one of the ten Mahavidyas.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
Kali and Chinnamasta and Bhairavi hold the black tier of death and dissolution.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
There is no single classification of Tantra. The tradition produced several, each fixed in datable Sanskrit texts: the five *srotas* or streams of scripture,…
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
The Goddess, here called Bhairavi, has clearly heard all the doctrines already, and she is not satisfied.
- The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequence Lineages
The Krama scriptures are framed as instruction given by the Goddess Bhairavi to Bhairava.
- The Bengal Renaissance and Ramakrishna Treatise
The woman who made him a Tantric Rani Rashmoni died in February 1861, and shortly afterwards a woman arrived at Dakshineswar whom Saradananda calls, through all the sadhana chapters, only the Bhairavi Brahmani.
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
…of the goddess ( Kali, Tara, Shodashi/Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi, Kamala ) that the Bengali tradition would adopt as the principal organising structur…
- The Caste And Gender Question Treatise
She had come, she would later say, because she had been divinely ordained to teach the young temple priest she would meet in the garden. The teacher who came by boat Her name was Bhairavi Brahmani .
- The Mantric Primacy Question Treatise
…ultaneously, Bala (the maiden), Tripura Sundari (the supreme beauty), Bhairavi (the fierce), Shyamala (the dark), Varahi (the boar-headed warrior), Mahaganapati (the obstacle remover), each as legitimate operat…