Shri Vidya (
ISO: '; ; sometimes also spelled Sri Vidya or Shree Vidya) is a
Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
Tantric religious system
Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, tr ...
devoted to
the Goddess as Lalitā Tripurasundarī (''Beautiful Goddess of the Three worlds''),
Bhuvaneshvari, Maha
Lakshmi, etc. A thousand names for this form of
are recited in the
, which includes concepts. The sect accepts and aims to provide both material prosperity and self-realisation. It has an extensive literature. Details of belief vary in different texts but the general principles are similar to those found in
Kashmir Shaivism
Kashmir Shaivism or Trika Shaivism, is a nondualist tradition of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra which originated sometime after 850 CE. Since this tradition originated in Kashmir it is often called "Kashmiri Shaivism". It later went on to become a pan ...
. Although Shri Vidya is completely against
Adi Shankara's Advaita philosophy, in some parts of India, it is believed to be originated from him.
In the principally
Shakta theology of the goddess is supreme, transcending the cosmos that is her manifestation. She is worshiped in the form of a mystical diagram (Sanskrit:
'), a central focus and ritual object composed of nine intersecting triangles, called the
Shri Yantra or '
[.]
Major texts
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Paraśurāma-kalpasūtra
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Sarada Tilaka
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Soundarya Lahari
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Tripura Rahasya
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Bhavanopanishad.
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