Definition:
Dakinis are sometimes called goddesses and sometimes demons. They are always fearsome and often beautiful, depicted in iconography as sinuously dancing women, usually naked, usually wrathful, often decorated with skulls.
The dakinis' task is to integrate the powers liberated by tantra visualization practice and to transform poisonous emotions and thoughts into pure awareness. Their nakedness symbolizes the mind stripped of defilement.
Also Known As: Khadroma (Tibetan)
