William Parkinson: > I tried to trace back my own mantra within the > Advaita-shakti tradition and found that it was > recorded in Shankara's 'Saundaryalahari.' > "According to the Shankaracharya of Sringeri, the Adi Shankara placed the Sri Chakra, symbol of Tripurasundari, with the TM mantras inscribed thereon, at each of the seats of learning - Dwarka, Puri, Sringeri, and at Jyotirmath. The mantras of TM are DIRECTLY related to Sri Vidya.
It is also a fact that the cult of Sri Vidya was derived from the nath siddhas, tantric alchemists of medieval India, 99% of whom were Vajrayana Buddhists in the line of Nagarjuna!" Read more: Sri Vidya: http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/srividya.htm
