Powerful Kalachakra
Kalachakra (Main figure)
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(Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni, Kalachakra, Vajra Vega, White Tara and Dorje Shugden.
Kalachakra means Wheel of Time or ‘time-cycles’ and is also a Tantric deity or yidam of Vajrayana Buddhism. The name also represents complex meditation practices contained within the Kalachakra Tantra literature. The meditations contained in this tantric system has the great ability to bring one to complete enlightenment.
Also to transform one’s inner world into that of an outer paradise. A situation is neither good or bad for a seasoned practitioner of Kalachakra because all phenomena lack inherent truth therefore cause and result are according to viewpoint and changeable.
According to the Kalachakra Tantra, Buddha Shakyamuni taught the Kalachakra Root Tantra in Dharanikota (near modern-day Amaravathi) in south-eastern India to the first king of Shambhala. This King brought the tantra back to Shambhala where it is the main practice of this mythical land. All the Kings of Shambhala are the lineage holders of this Kalachakra tantra and they empower their subjects into this practice.
Shambhala is a physical place where one can enter with this body but exists on a slightly different plane. Many high beings are able to visit in their astral bodies. Practitioners have physically entered the realm also. His Holiness the Panchen Lama and his line of incarnations are masters of this tantra and said to have travelled to this realm and recorded the sights and sounds in detail in ‘The Way to Shambhala’ or in Tibetan ‘Shambhala Lamyig’.
We are currently in the reign of the 21st King of Shambhala. Shambhala residents are said to live very long lives, peacefully abiding within ethics and the practice of Dharma. Their main practice being Kalachakra which is one of the highest yoga tantras revealed in this world system by Buddha Shakyamuni. It is said by practicing Kalachakra on the outside world one is able to create the causes to take rebirth in Shambhala. It is the only highest yoga tantra given publicly to mass audiences as higher tantras are very secret. It is with the hope to plant the seeds of Shambhala in their mindstreams by attending these initiations. It is hoped by receiving this initiation, one will create the causes to take rebirth in Shambhala where one can practice in peace and without wars or disturbances.
It is well known His Holiness the line of Panchen Lamas are the emanations of the Kings of Shambhala to bring Dharma to the lands outside of Shambhala. It is a speciality practice of the line of Panchen Lamas of Tibet. Many benefits arise from the practice of this profound tantric system.
Furthermore, Dorje Shugden for many lifetimes as great translators and lineage holders had been responsible for the dissemination and preservation of the Kalachakra Tantra in Tibet. According to the long fulfilment puja (kangsol) text, Dorje Shugden at the beginning of the puja is called forth from the mystical land of Shambhala, the last great stronghold of the Kalachakra lineage and practice on earth. One of the places Dorje Shugden abides is Shambhala. The previous Panchen Lama has built an ornate and extensive chapel to Dorje Shugden in his sprawling monastery of Tashilunpo in Tibet.
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Time, in Buddhism, is defined as a measurement of change. Kalachakra also known as cycle of time. It consist of 3 cycles- external,internal and alternative. Moon circling the Earth is an example of external structure. Woman going through the period of menstruation in known as the internal structure whereas alternative cycles allow us to engage with and surmount these forces in an efficient manner. Such mimicking is, in fact, one of the distinguishing features of the anuttarayoga tantra method.
Just as universes form, expand, disappear and then form once again, individual beings pass through continuing rebirths with repeated conception, growth, old age and death. As we age, our sight, hearing, memory and physical strength gradually weaken and eventually we die. Due to compulsive attachment and confusion about who we are and how we exist, we take rebirth and relearn everything we knew before.
As each of our lives unfolds over the course of time, the karma that we ‘earned’ potentials from our previous actions ripen at appropriate astrological and historical moments into the various events we experience.
Therefore, time has neither beginning nor end. There has always been change (time).
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Beautiful images of Powerful Kalachakra tells all. The Kalachakra Tantra is a profound Buddhist system of teaching and practice. Well it was taught by the Buddha in India more than 2500 years ago at the request of the King of Shambala. A historical kingdom which existed beyond the Himalaya. His Holiness the line of Panchen Lamas are the emanations of the Kings of Shambhala to bring Dharma to the lands outside of Shambhala. Kalachakra is unique in many ways. The practice of Kalachakra is extremely advanced and sophisticated so much so it is very effective for attaining enlightenment for the benefit of all.
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