The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (594 page)

(Skt., ‘female witch’; Tib.,
mkha’
.
’gro.ma
, ‘Female one who moves through the sky’). A class of Goddesses in Tibetan Buddhism attendant upon
yogins
. Historically,
ki
s were known in India as flesh-eating attendants of
K
l
, and as the sexual partners of yogins. Iconographically,
ki
s are usually consorts of other deities, but it is
only
iconographically that they correspond to the Hindu
aktis
: the
ki