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 Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
The Goddess, here called Bhairavi, has clearly heard all the doctrines already, and she is not satisfied.
- The Bengal Renaissance And Ramakrishna Treatise
… Ramakrishna performed was within his specific Tantric training under Bhairavi Brahmani — the female Tantric guru Volume 5’s Chapter 5 named, who had arrived at Dakshineshwar in 1861 and guided Ramakrishna thro…
- 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
…ltaneously — 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…
- Bhairavi: The Fire Within Creation Treatise
She is Bhairavi , fully Tripura Bhairavi , and her name is the feminine of Bhairava , the Terrifying One, the fierce form of Shiva.
- Bhuvaneshvari: She Whose Body Is the World Treatise
The fifth face is fire: Bhairavi, the fierce one, the burning that is hidden inside all making.