Subject: Female Imagery Introduction

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Gender & Iconography

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
--- Teachers
--- Deities
--- Minor Topics (below)
--- Religious Traditions: Buddhist, Hindu, Bon, Tribal
- Index of Female Figures (All)
- Confusions
- Others...

Videos:
- Female Imagery Introduction
- Gender Confusions
- A Question on Female Representation
- Male & Female: How to distinguish male from female figures
- Androgynous Gods & Gender Reversed Deities
- Female Deities & Popular Figures
- Female Deities & Consorts
- Minor Female Deities

Minor Topics:
- Goddess Terminology
- Androgynous Gods, Gender Reversed Deities
- Couples in Art
- Daka & Dakini
- Female Dominant Meditational Deity Couples
- Female Deity Form versus Male Form (peaceful) Outline
- Ladies with Beards
- Mountain Goddesses
- Tetrahedron
- Universal Deities
- Worldly Spirits
- Others...

Universal Deities:
- Durga
- Ekajati
- Marichi
- Sitatapatra
- Others...

Mountain Goddesses:
- Dorje Yudronma (Mountain Goddess)
- Nyen Cham Karmo, Yulri (Mountain Goddess, Gyalrong, East Tibet)
- Tseringma & Sisters (Mountain Goddess)
- Twelve Goddesses of Tibet (Mountain Goddesses)
- Others...

Jeff Watt [updated 12-2015, 11-2019]

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(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).