With a long history in South Asian folklore and religious traditions, yoginīs are liminal, trangressive, and often ferocious semidivine female figures associated with the bestowal of temporal and transcendent spiritual accomplishment. In Buddhist tantra they are identical to ḍākinīs.

In the sūtra and Kriyātantra literature, a yoginī is a female spirit of the lower order.

With a long history in South Asian folklore and religious traditions, yoginīs are liminal, transgressive, and often ferocious nonhuman female figures associated with the bestowal of temporal and transcendent spiritual accomplishment. In Buddhist tantra they are identical to ḍākinīs.