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Tibetan Astrology
22 Articles
The Nature of Time
The Relevance of the Topic of Time Time (dus, Skt. kala) and such topics within the category of time like the past, the present, and the future are very important topics to study when we are on the Buddhist path. They’re not just metaphysically interesting, but they are...
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Buddhist and Scientific Understandings of Time
Karmic Bingo
The Complexity of Karma Karma is a topic that concerns what happens to us and why. It is something that is very relevant to all of us on a personal level, not something outside of the sphere of our lives. If we can start to understand karma and how it works, we can begin to...
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Re-examining Karma Immediately after 9/11
Details of Tibetan Astrology 4: Magic-Squares and Trigrams
Magic-squares consist of a grid of three by three with numbers in each row and column adding to 15. Each number is correlated with a color and one of the five Chinese elements. In the Tibetan astro system, each year and each date has a magic-square number.
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Tibetan Astrology
Details of Tibetan Astrology 7: The Tibetan Ephemeris
The daily positions of the planets are calculated according to complex arithmetic formulas. The Tibetan mathematical model of the motion of the planets differs greatly from the Indian and Chinese ones.
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Tibetan Astrology
Details of Tibetan Astrology 9: The Tibetan Almanac
Learn about the distinct features of the Tibetan almanac such as the “arising from the vowels” system, special dates and combination and action periods.
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Tibetan Astrology
Tibetan Astro Sciences
The astro sciences of calendar-making, astronomy, astrology, and mathematics touch many aspects of Tibetan life. These sciences play a significant role in the Tibetan medical tradition.
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The First Two Chapters of “The Kalachakra Tantra”
Examine the contents of the first two chapters as they appear in “The Abridged Kalachakra Tantra” and its commentary, “Stainless Light.” The first concerns the external cycles of time, the second the internal cycles.
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Kalachakra: Advanced
The Nature of Time as a Temporal Interval
Buddhism regards time as a nonstatic phenomenon, an interval on an individual mental continuum between the experiences of two sequential events.
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Time & the Universe
External Kalachakra
External Kalachakra presents the external cycles the universe goes through and includes the teachings on world systems, astronomy, astrology, the motion of the planets, the calendar and history.
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Kalachakra: Advanced
Tibetan Astrology: History and Lineages
The Bon system of astrology was amalgamated with the Chinese astro materials that first came to Tibet in the mid-7th century. In the 11th century, with the introduction of the “Kalachakra Tantra” from India, its astro traditions were added as well to make the unique blend of...
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