Lalita
ललिता lalitāLalita Tripurasundari, the supreme goddess of the Sri Vidya tradition, worshipped through the Sri Yantra and the Lalita Sahasranama.
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- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Bhaskararaya Makhin is the pre-eminent Shrividya commentator of the eighteenth century, the author of the Setubandha and of the standard commentary on the Lalita Sahasranama .
- What are Mudras? Lineages
In Srividya , the tradition that adores Lalita Tripurasundari through the Sri Chakra , the great diagram of nine nested enclosures, the worshipper offers the Goddess a fixed set of ten secret hand-seals, the da…
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
One is the Srikula, the family of Sri, gentle and regal, centred on the beautiful goddess Lalita Tripurasundari, worshipped through her diagram the Sri Chakra and the mantra-system called Sri Vidya.
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…evi-Bhagavata Purana , the Shakta Tantras , the thousand names of the Lalita Sahasranama , and the Saundarya Lahari , the "Flood of Beauty," a hymn to the Goddess the tradition attributes to Shankara himself.
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
There is a Lalita Sahasranama for the Goddess, a Shiva Sahasranama , a Ganesha Sahasranama , and many more, each doing for its deity what Bhishma's does for Vishnu.
- Who is Parvati? Deities
Sri Vidya locates the supreme elsewhere again, in Lalita Tripurasundari.
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
The most refined of these is Sri Vidya, the discipline built around the goddess Lalita Tripurasundari, worshipped through her mantra and through the interlocking triangles of the Sri Yantra.
- Four in the Morning Treatise
The thousand names Then the names. The Lalita Sahasranama .