MOODBOARD: Chhinnamasta





(Chhinnamasta.  Circa 1800s)
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One of the ten goddesses of esoteric Tantric, Chhinnamasta is the goddess of contradictions.  In Tibetan  esoteric Buddhism she is known as Chinnamunda.  The goddess holds a paradox of meanings, from being a nourisher of life, she also takes life.  Of sexual control, she embodies sexual energy.  Sex, death and destruction, life and recreation.   As she stands over a couple having sex, with the female on top of the male (viparita-rati), whilst 
Chhinnamasta has self decapitated her own head and feeds her blood to herself and two disciples, Dakini (left) and Varnini (right).

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