Srikula
श्रीकुल srikulaThe 'family of Sri', the stream of Shakta Tantra centred on Tripura Sundari and Sri Vidya, which treats her as the supreme Goddess. Paired with the Kalikula.
Where this term appears
- 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.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
There is the Srikula , the family of the auspicious Goddess, strongest in the south, whose Sri Vidya tradition worships Lalita Tripurasundari through the geometry of the Sri Yantra and produced commentators of …
- What is Tantra? Lineages
The Srikula , the family of Sri, gathers around Tripurasundari, "the beautiful one of the three cities," and its central system is Sri Vidya , gentle, refined, and luminous.
- Chhinnamasta: The Goddess Who Cut Off Her Own Head Treatise
She is honoured at scattered shrines, notably the temple at Rajrappa in Jharkhand, where the Bhairavi and Damodar rivers meet, and within the guarded lineages of the Kalikula and Srikula.
- Ten Faces of the One Treatise
The Srikula , the family of Sri, the world of Sri Vidya, treats them as forms of Tripura Sundari, the beautiful one, and makes her the head.
- The Garland: Why the Ten Are One Treatise
The Srikula, the family of Sri, says the white light is Tripura Sundari and the others are hers.
- Tripura Sundari: The Beauty of the Three Cities Treatise
She is Tripura Sundari , the Beautiful One of the Three Cities, and where the Kalikula makes Kali the root of the ten, the Srikula, the family of Sri, makes her the supreme, the head of all the rest.