Where Shakti meets the Vajra master
Recently, when I went to Bhubaneswar, Odisha, I visited the Chausath Yogini Temple (64 Yogini Temple) of Hirapur, also called the Mahamaya Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I was stunned. Hirapur’s Yogini temple is a Tantric shrine with hypaethral (roofless) architecture, as Tantric prayer rituals involve worshipping the bhumandala (environment consisting of all the five elements…