Kalachakra

Review We have been analyzing the various causal connections between clear-light mind, these winds of karma, the creative-energy drops, and everything that’s involved in our experience of these mental holograms. And we proposed that the winds of karma are the mounts of the...

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche always used these verses from the “The Abridged Kalachakra Tantra” before beginning Kalachakra teachings and practice.

To differentiate the common tantric vows from the Kalachakra root tantric vows, we follow here the explanation given in “An Explanation of Secret Mantra Ethical Discipline: A Cluster of Fruit of Actual Attainments” by Tsongkhapa.

An abridged Kalachakra sadhana having only the mind mandela with its 46 deities.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Eighth Dalai Lama sent Gyelse Dorjechang from his own Namgyal Monastery to establish the main Kalachakra Monastery of Mongolia, Dechen Kalawa. Kalachakra practice was spread throughout Mongolia by the Fourth and Fifth Bogdo Gegens.

The symbolism in the Kalachakra mandala represents a union of opposites, indicative of the harmony needed for establishing world peace.

During the first millennium CE, Muslims were interested to learn of the beliefs of the peoples they had conquered and now ruled, including Buddhism, while Buddhists were interested in other beliefs only when they were vying with them in debate for royal patronage and that...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama recommended these four texts for Westerners who do not have time to practice the fuller Kalachakra sadhanas.

Hindu and Buddhist sources as well several Western Occult traditions present varied accounts and interpretations about Shambhala.

The Buddhist abhidharma and Kalachakra literatures provide two distinct presentations of cosmology, each for a different purpose.