Associations With Other Cultures
In Iranian Themes in Tibetan Tantric Culture: The Ḍākinī, David Templeman points out the links between dakinis as found in Tibetan Buddhism and Urgyen which is in what is now Northern Pakistan. He suggests that this links the wrathful dakinis to another form of wrathful female, the Persian peri.
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