Meditations of a Yogi

As patriarch Sakya Pandita (1182–1251) (Willis 1987, 103) described as the fourteenth “root downfall” associated with samaya in classic fashion: If one disparages women who are of the nature of wisdom, that is the fourteenth root downfall. That is to say, women are the symbol of wisdom and śūnyatā, showing both. It is therefore a root downfall to dispraise women in every possible way, saying that women are without spiritual merit ... and made of unclean things, not considering their good qualities.
Honoring the ḍākinī paradigm on all these levels connects the practitioner more closely with Vajrayāna devotion and realization.
In summary, in Tibetan Tantra the ḍākinī principle has at least four polysemic levels of interrelated meaning, correlating with various dimensions of transmission, practice, and realization. These levels of the ḍākinī symbol relate to the “spiritual subjectivities” of women and men, illuminating the intimacy of personal experience in meditation as the essence of its meaning.

Source: ”The Ḍākinī in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Judith Simmer-Brown

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As patriarch Sakya Pandita (1182–1251) (Willis 1987, 103) described as the fourteenth “root downfall” associated with samaya in classic fashion: If one disparages women who are of the nature of wisdom, that is the fourteenth root downfall. That is to say, women are the symbol of wisdom and śūnyatā, showing both. It is therefore a root downfall to dispraise women in every possible way, saying that women are without spiritual merit ... and made of unclean things, not considering their good qualities.
Honoring the ḍākinī paradigm on all these levels connects the practitioner more closely with Vajrayāna devotion and realization.
In summary, in Tibetan Tantra the ḍākinī principle has at least four polysemic levels of interrelated meaning, correlating with various dimensions of transmission, practice, and realization. These levels of the ḍākinī symbol relate to the “spiritual subjectivities” of women and men, illuminating the intimacy of personal experience in meditation as the essence of its meaning.

Source: ”The Ḍākinī in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism - Judith Simmer-Brown

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