His Holiness the Dalai Lama has graciously
and kindly agreed to confer the Kalachakra Empowerment at Shri Dhanyakataka
in South India, taking into consideration the sanctity of this excellent
place where Buddha taught the Kalachakra for the first time. Due to the
unique qualities of both the place and the teacher, manifest in the form of
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this is a very rare and privileged opportunity
that is most unlikely to occur again in the future.
A brief introduction to the Glorious Kalachakra. Kalachakra
is of three types:
» External Kalachakra - deals with external world systems such
as the movement of the Sun, Moon and other constellations.
» Internal Kalachakra - refers to the internal structure of a
human being such as the channels, energies and regenerative fluids.
» Alternative Kalachakra - refers to the generation and
completion stages of the spiritual path of Kalachakra that purify the
objects to be purified, which in this context are the external and internal
Kalachakra.
As a result of such purification you actualize the personal deity, the
Glorious Kalachakra, with four faces and twenty-four arms and the
seven-featured state of union.
Kalachakra was first taught in India on the 15th of the 3rd month, in the
year following Buddha Shakyamuni’s enlightenment. At the same time that
he was teaching the Perfection of Wisdom on Vulture’s Peak near Rajgir,
he taught the Kalachakra Root Tantra at Shri Dhanyakataka in South India to
a host of pure followers led by Suchandra, the King of Shambala.
In Tibet, this teaching was first spread by the translator, Gyi-jo Lotsawa
Dawa Ö-ser 1171 years after the Buddha’s passing away, which was
the Fire-Rabbit Year of the Tibetan calendar, according to the Kashmiri
Pandit Shakyashri’s system of calculation, or 1027 CE.
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