Time and the Universe

The 62 wrong views are based on considering the self or “soul” of a person to be self-sufficiently knowable and the universe to have truly established existence.

The first and second of the five inclusive features of a Tibetan calendar are the lunar weekday and the date of the lunar month. These are involved in the mech­anism through which the lunar and solar calendars are brought into harmony.

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.

Why we can't be reborn as a dinosaur these days.

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

A comparative overview of the Buddhist point of view of time, referring to the interval that can be measured on a continuum between a cause and an effect, and the relativistic point of view in current Western science.

The Mahayana and Theravada presentation of the points on which the Buddha remained silent, since to answer them would only create confusion in the minds of questioners.

A survey of the different types of mandalas used for many different purposes, both in sutra and tantra.

Things appear in deceptive ways but we can see how they actually exist with an understanding of the Buddhist analysis of the various types of phenomena there are.

The evolution of a universe is intimately connected with the karma of the limited beings that will be reborn into it.