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	Joseph Campbell Foundation Forums - View Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chhinnamasta, whose image is a severed head, is the Goddess who causes us to cut off our own heads or to dissolve our minds into pure awareness.
		Chhinnamasta — which literally means “a severed head” — is perhaps the most frightening or disturbing form of the Goddess.
		Chhinnamasta has a naked headless body, and in her two hands holds her own severed head and a sword.
	www.jcf.org /forum/viewtopic.php?topic=2088&forum=26&4 (7306 words)

	Articles 2005
		Chhinnamasta represents the realization of the illusion of embodied existence and the thought-composed mind: in other words, the painful process of ego sacrifice.
		Chhinnamasta represents Perception beyond the ordinary mind: the realisation of the illusion of embodied existence and the thought-composed mind.
		The meditation approach is to attend to the perceptual process, and thereby to withdraw self- identification with thoughts and objects, with the result that the world is perceived as a shifting pattern of perceptions that thought divides into objects, but that do not have substantiality.
	www.yogapsychology.org /articles_05.html (16669 words)

	TEN GODDESS MAHASHAKTI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The tale about the manifestation of goddess chhinnamasta is as follows, Once, goddess Bhagwati-Bhawani, went to have a bath in the river Mandakini, with her two companion Jaya and Vijaya.
		She is called Chhinnamasta because of her severed head.
		Goddess Chhinnamasta is a symbol of the perception of secrecy.
	www.urday.com /das3.html (291 words)

	Amazon.com: Chhinnamasta: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Their names are Kali, Tara, Sodagi, Bhuvaneivari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Sundari,' Bhagalamukhi, Dhumvati and Mtangi.
		Kali, Tara, Sodasi, Bhuvanesvari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Matangi, Kamala, Dhumavati, and Bagala are called Mahavidyas.
		At the initiation of the Chhinnamasta Tantrikas (from chhinna, " severed," and masta, " head," the...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Chhinnamasta&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (704 words)

	Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary, Cha-Chy
		Chhaya-grahini chaya-grahini (Sanskrit) Shadow-catcher; in the Ramayana, it "was able to arrest the aerial progress of Hanuman by seizing on his shadow on the surface of the Sea" {BCW 6:341}.
		Chhinnamasta Tantrika Chinnamasta tantrika (Sanskrit) [from chhinna severed + masta head] Buddhist tantric sect named for the goddess Chhinnamasta, represented with a decapitated head.
		In their highest initiation, the adept "must 'cut off his own head with the right hand, holding it in the left.' Three streams of blood gush out from the headless trunk.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/etgloss/cha-chy.htm (8595 words)

	HEADLINE NEWS THE RISING NEPAL (DAILY)
		RAJBIRAJ, Jan. 5: His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev visited the Chhinnamasta Temple at Chhinnamasta of Saptari this morning and worshipped Goddess Bhagawati.
		The idol of the goddess does not have a head, hence, it has come to be known as Chhinnamasta.
		Legend has it that the blood from sacrifices does not stick onto clothes and flies do not touch the blood either.
	www.nepalnews.com /contents/englishdaily/trn/2003/jan/jan06/index1.htm (248 words)

	eKantipur.com - Nepal's No.1 News Portal
		At the Dashainghar of Hanumandhoka at midnight tonight the final worship will be conducted with prayers to goddess Durga Bhavani, salvoes fired and 54 buffaloes and 54 goats sacrificed in observance of the rites of Kalaratri.
		Likewise, a large number of devotees also flocked to the Manakamana in Gorkha, Gahawamai of Birgunj, Chhinnamasta Bhagawati of Saptari, Rajdevi of Janakpur and Ugratar of Dadeldhura among others.
		Various domestic weapons including vehicles were also cleaned up and worshipped along with animal sacrifices.
	www.kathmandupost.com /kolnews.php?nid=87679 (260 words)

	MahaVidia Temple in Tamil Nadu, South India
		Tripura Bhairavi like Sundari rules over the three worlds within the vehicle that carries our soul, the body.
		Perception – Goddess Chhinnamasta represents the consciousness beyond the mind.
		She helps us to encounter our headless ghost or demon.
	www.tantric-goddess.org /mahavidya_part_2.html (2037 words)

	Chhinnamasta - One of the Ten Mahavidyas who Decapitates Herself to Feed Devotees
		Chhinnamasta - One of the Ten Mahavidyas who Decapitates Herself to Feed Devotees
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		PE15: Chhinnamasta - One of the Ten Mahavidyas who Decapitates Herself to Feed Devotees
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	Samudaya.org: Nepal: Maoists Declare War Against JTMM
		The war will continue until the coordinator of the Morcha, Jay Krishna Goit comes to the table of talks by realizing the mistake," he added.
		The Maoists accuse JTMM activists of the murder of two Maoist cadres, Mahendra Yadav and Bijay Jha, in Chhinnamasta of Saptari some two weeks ago.
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	samudaya.org /articles/archives/2006/07/nepal_maoists_d_2.php (416 words)

	Thylazine: The Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature: Issue No.10: Australian Poetry Book Reviews: The Year ...
		This quote re-captures the state of mind which can free itself from prejudice in order to write passionately about things that matter at the turn of the century.
		The poems 'Chhinnamasta', 'The White Swan', and 'The Young Corn God' are some of the darkest poems of loss I've ever read.
		These poems fuse Hardacre's childhood beside stories of kidnap, rape and murder of children.
	www.thylazine.org /archives/thyla10/phbook.html (1120 words)

	Chapter Eight: Cinacara (Vashishtha and Buddha)
		It is to be noted that Buddhist Tantriks who practice this ritual are accounted Kaulas.
		Shiva replied, "Janardana (Vishnu) is the excellent Deva in the form of Buddha (Buddharupi)." It is said in the Samayacara Tantra that Tara and Kalika, in their different forms, as also Matangi, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, and Dhumavati belong to the northern Amnaya.
		The sixth Chapter of the Sammohana Tantra mentions a number of Scriptures of the Bauddha class, together with others of the Shakta, Shaiva, Vaishnava, Saura and Ganapatya classes.
	www.sacred-texts.com /tantra/sas/sas08.htm (3251 words)

	Shri Durga Chalisa, the Forty Verse Prayer to Ma Durga - English Translation
		It is You who redeem the wolrd, appearing in the form of Shree Bhairavi,
		Taradevi and Chhinnamasta Devi, and end its sorrows.
		Reposing gracefully upon your vehicle, O Goddess Bhavani, You are welcome
	www.indif.com /nri/chalisas/durgachalisa/durgachalisa_meaning.asp (717 words)

	TraveliteIndia.com: Welcome to West Bengal, Jewel of East
		Items collected through periodic excavations are kept here.
		Some other noteworthy temples are - the large Madan Mohan, the Radhey Shyam built out of laterite rocks, the Sarbamangla and the Chhinnamasta temples
		Darjeeling is situated on the foothills of the Himalayas, at an altitude of 2134m.
	www.traveliteindia.com /guide/state/westbengal.asp (6165 words)

	Jharkhand: An IndiaOneStop Synopsis
		Sanctuaries: Betla National Park (wildlife, tigers specially) near Daltongunj
		Pilgrimage centres: Pareshnath Hills (a pilgrimage centre for the Jains), Chhinnamasta Temple in Rajarappa
		Resort: Netarhat resort at 1,200 metre above sea level.
	www.indiaonestop.com /jharkhand.htm (290 words)

	nepaldalitinfo/in the news
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		Another news report from Rajbiraj, Saptari district (The Kathmandu Post, Dec 4) says, more than three-dozen dalit Mushahars of Rampura in Chhinnamasta VDC-3, had to be admitted to Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital after they were attacked by non-dalit local youth group.
		The dalits were seriously injured when the so-called ‘upper caste’ group assaulted them with iron rods and wooden staffs on last Friday.[ Dec 05, 2004]
	www.nepaldalitinfo.20m.com /news/news2004.html (6457 words)

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