Tsurpu Monastery was founded in 1189 by the First Karmapa, Dusum Kyenpa. It is the main monastery of the Karma Kamtsang Kagyu Tradition. Tsurpu has been the traditional seat of the line of Karmapas.

In addition to taking bodhisattva and the Kalachakra root tantric vows, another commitment of the Kalachakra empowerment is to safeguard 25 modes of tamed behavior.

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.

A guru-yoga practice for seeing our guru as inseparable from Kalachakra and for making requests to him for inspiration to develop the various realizations along the Kalachakra path to enlightenment.

Out of the inner, outer and alternative Kalachakras, in order to practice the alternative Kalachakra, which is the practice of the generation and complete stages, you need the proper place to practice. You need a place to practice the generation stage as the first aspect of...

The Initial Visualization The text reads: Within a state of fantasy-free clear light mahamudra, on the broad path before me of the immortal divines, like a glittering multicolored display of rainbows, in the center of a billowing ocean of clouds of Samantabhadra...

Requesting the Seven Empowerments The disciples request all seven empowerments of entering like a child by repeating three times: Just as Bodhivajra bestowed the great offering (of empowerment) on the Buddhas, today bestow the same on me, O Vajra Space, so that I may be...

Preliminary Steps The actual empowerment begins with the disciples rinsing their mouths and prostrating, as the day before. Whether a participant or an observer, we still imagine ourselves as a simple Kalachakra on the black eastern porch of the mandala palace, and our...

Outline of the Actual Empowerment The actual Kalachakra empowerment is divided into two parts: entering the mandala,giving the empowerments to those who have entered. The first part, entering the mandala, is divided into two sections: entering blindfolded,entering as...

The following outline is intended as an overview of the three days of the Kalachakra initiation. Those attending the ritual may find it helpful as a guide to the stages of the ceremony. Since most people find the diacritical marks on letters of Sanskrit seed-syllables of...