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Although dakini figures appear in Hinduism and in the Bön tradition, dakinis occur most notably in Vajrayana Buddhism and play a particular role in Tibetan Buddhism.

There the dakini, generally of volatile or wrathful temperament, acts somewhat as spiritual muse ( or inspirational thoughtforms ) for spiritual practice.

Dakinis are energetic beings in female form, evocative of the movement of energy in space.

In this context, the sky or space indicates shunyata, the insubstantiality of all phenomena, which is, at the same time, the pure potentiality for all possible manifestations.