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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Hope this book finds the way to the readers in the society especially in all the states about the Feminine aspects of Female Buddhas, thos who were less known to many due to the Patriarchal presence of Buddhism. This book would be breaking a pertained concept of masculinity in Buddhahood as this Book narrates a huge narration on various female Buddhas also known as Dakinis. The Female Buddhas mentioned in this book are Vajrayogini, Vajravarahi, Pragyaparamita, Yeshe Tsogyal, Machig Labdron, Tara and Pragya essence in Buddha nature.This book would be a massive breaking through the concepts where ideas would be formed as per the nature of Buddhahood would be described especially from the Buddha Mother narrative that shows the compassion and wrath in form of compassion as a divine understanding of Buddhahood. The whole range of Vajrayana Buddhism is defined majorly in terms of Buddha Mother and Buddha Pragya nature. The Paramita sutra also known as The Perfection in Wisdom. This wisdom is the wisdom of understanding Nothingness. This is why the beauty of Nature in the formation of various modes of compassion in knowing the unknown or taking refuge to know the unknown. Thus, bringing together the selflessness of refuge into the Motherly charm of the Great Buddha Dakinis.
Akash Dolui, Assistant Professor Prakriti Chakraborty (Vishwabharati University)
I, Akash Dolui, a resident from Chandannagar, district - Hooghly, in the state of West Bengal, had completed my Bachelor’s Degree in English and Masters in Arts in English from Jadavpur University, currently I am working on other topics as well on Vajrayana Buddhism and Queer Fields. I have a theory submitted into another upcoming book on Ambedkarite view of Buddhism and I was inspired to write about it during my Winter School Retreat on Ambedkar and Buddhism at Nagaloka arranged by Navayana Buddhism. I once came across a documentary on Vajrayana Buddhism and it interested me a lot in portraying how important Vajrayana Buddhism is. Most of us are aware of Buddhism as a religious identity from the male perspective but as soon as I came across Vajrayana Buddhism my whole understanding of Buddhist philosophy started changing.
The Buddha we are acquainted with is Gautama Buddha, who might have led to the path towards Buddhism or the founder of Buddhism but if we delve more into it Buddhism as a Bodhi attainment had been existing prior to Gautama Buddha. This pulls me into the world of Buddhism more and also into certain practices of meditation from the teachings of Buddha Gautama about Vajrayana where mudras are more into practice as a tantric cult. Getting the idea of Vajra as Nothingness taught by Buddha Shakyamuni I tried to find out what Vajra is. This Vajra is Emptiness where dukha is an essential non-entertained kin.
This question had been taking over my mind when the historical narration of Mahayana, Hinayana, Vajrayana departing from Mahayana came across my mind. Thus as I moved further with my studies into various Buddhist tantric texts of Heruka and Guhyasamaja I came to understand the Pragya nature of the Buddhas and the essence of the Buddhas and the nurturing of Buddhas; these are more like Buddhahood and not single Buddha appearance in an individual. The Vajrayana practice showed much more of Sambhogakaya into attainment of Dharmakaya which is believed to be more of Dharma Feminine Aspects of letting out the beauty of Compassion to all sentient beings. But wrath in Dakinis were another whole different sorted aspect as a power to subdue egoism within one.
