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Ḍākinī (Buddhist deity)

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Found inKhrom-dge Zla-ba-sgron-maʼi dag snang sogs bzhugs so, 2015: page 139 (Ḍākinī Buddhist deity)
An encyclopedic dictionary of Indian culture, 1992: page 105 (Ḍākinī is the female counterpart to a Boddhisattva. In Tibetan, Ḍākinī is the name of a woman having supernatural powers, sometimes represented as an angel, at other times as a fairy or witch.)
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