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ID: 901002285
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002285
Record Type: Character/Person

Vajrayoginī (Buddhist deity)

Note: Deity who works for the well-being of others and for destruction of ego.

Names:
Vajrayoginī (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་ (Buddhist deity) (Tibetan)
瑜伽空行母 (Buddhist deity) (Chinese-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
........<Buddhist characters> (P)
............Vajrayoginī (Buddhist deity) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Buddhist
.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Vajrayoginī (Buddhist deity)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85141808
རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་ (Buddhist deity)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayogini
................Sahai, Minor Hindu and Buddhist Deities (1975)
瑜伽空行母 (Buddhist deity)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayogini
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayogini#/media/File:Vajrayogini_from_Thangka.jpg

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