Brief Review of the Text External Cycles of Time, Kalachakra, is the entire presentation of the world and environment in terms of night and day, the days of the week, the months, the year and things related to time. In the lunar year there are 12 months, each of 30 days or 360...

Questions and Answers In terms of the comprehensive result concerning one individual, what is the relationship of that to collective karma? There is a slight difference when we speak of collective karma or collective actions and their results. For instance, if 30 people are on...

[Clarification of His Holiness' answers by Dr. Berzin are included within square brackets.] Relation between Westerners and Kalachakra Dr. Berzin: Do Westerners have a special relation with Kalachakra? His Holiness: I wonder, do they really have one? In general, the...

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...

Bibliography of major Sanskrit, Tibetan and Western language sources on Kalachakra.

What you need to know for taking a Kalachakra initiation.

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...

Review  Today we are continuing our discussion of Kalachakra, and particularly we’re looking at the Kalachakra explanation of the causes of our suffering in the context of the presentation of the four noble truths. That means that we’re looking at how Kalachakra explains...

The Importance of Analysis  We were discussing what Kalachakra adds to our understanding of the four noble truths, and we saw that one of the most distinctive features that it adds is the discussion of the flowing or coursing of the winds of karma in our bodies, our...

Review  This morning, we spoke about the four noble truths in general, and then we presented what Kalachakra adds to this. The main thing that we were emphasizing was a little bit more of an extensive explanation of the true causes of samsara, and we went through the...