Kalachakra
Sign in to saveAlso known as Vajrayana tantra, Kalachakara tantra, Sri Kalacakra, Kalacakra laghutantra, Wheel of Time, Time Cycles, Kālacakra
thumb|A Kālacakra Mandala with the deities Kalachakra and Vishvamata
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32 sectionsContents
- Sources
- Sanskrit texts
- Tibetan translations
- Chapters
- History
- Origins
- Spread to Tibet
- Views
- Transformation of body and mind
- Cosmology
- Time and cycles
- Deity and the Adibuddha
- Mandala
- Socio-political teaching
- Shambhala kingdom and Islamophobia
- Subtle body
- Adoption of non-Buddhist content
- Practice
- Initiation and preliminaries
- Generation stage
- Six Yogas of the Completion Stage
- Kālacakra lineages
- Jonang
- Gelug
- Kagyu
- Nyingma
- Sakya
- Iconography
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|A Kālacakra Mandala with the deities Kalachakra and Vishvamata
Kālacakra () is a polysemic term in Vajrayana Buddhism and Hinduism that means "wheel of time" or "time cycles". "Kālacakra" is also the name of a series of Buddhist texts and a major practice lineage in Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. The tantra is considered to belong to the unexcelled yoga (anuttara-yoga) class.
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