Shri Vidya

NOTOC Shri Vidya (ISO: ; 'knowledge', 'learning', 'lore', or 'science'; sometimes also spelled Sri Vidya or Shree Vidya) is a Hindu Tantric religious system devoted to the Goddess as Lalitā Tripurasundarī (Beautiful Goddess of the Three Worlds). 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. 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 .