Kalachakra

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

Many foreign myths have grown around the legend of Shambhala found in the Kalachakra literature. Some were spread to win military or political support, others appeared within occult movements and mixed Buddhist ideas with concepts from other systems of belief.

Alternative Kalachakra deals with the methods for overcoming being under the influence of the external and internal cycles of time. The Kalachakra Tantra presents these methods in its third, fourth and fifth chapters. The third chapter deals with the empowerment, the...

A short overview of what we need to know about tantra and empowerments before we take the Kalachakra Initiation.

A survey of the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction during the first millennium after the Prophet, focusing on the level of knowledge that the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition had of Islam, as found in the Kalachakra literature, and the points that it had identified as being...

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...

A Tibetan-Mongolian horoscope reveals possible courses one’s life can take due to karma and thus indicates that no course is inevitable. Everything that happens arises dependently on innumerable causes and circumstances and what one does contributes to the course of one’s life.

Overview of the three waves of Buddhism reaching Mongolia from Central Asia and then Tibet, the subsequent exploitation of Buddhism by the Manchus, its suppression under the communist regime and the initial efforts at its revival.

A deep understanding of the various components of an empowerment is important for gaining the most benefit from the experience.

The legend of Shambhala was used by Mongol rebels against the Soviets in the “Shambhala Wars” as well as by the Japanese in attempts to control Mongolia in the 1920s and 30s.