Kalachakra

The outline of the three main stages of the Kalachakra initiation: preparation ceremony, entering the mandala, and seven empowerments of entering as a child.

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.

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...

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.

Details about Kalachakra, its history and relation with the Dalai Lamas.

Some people have misunderstood the intent of a Kalachakra initiation and tantra practice in general, thinking it propagates Buddhist domination. To avoid interfaith suspicion and mistrust, it is important to examine the issues in light of the historical and cultural contexts...

An explanation of the samsaric mechanism of death and rebirth and the liberating mechanism of the sutra, anuttarayoga tantra and Kalachakra methods for attaining a true stopping of them with the attainment of enlightenment.

Kalachakra texts have molded their description of cycles of history, such as their containing a future Armageddon battle against non-Indic invaders and the dawning of a new golden age, to fit the structure of its meditation practice.