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Manjuśrīkīrti, King of Shambhala. Shambhala is ruled by the future Buddha Maitreya. [6] [8] The Shambhala narrative is found in the Kalachakra tantra, a text of the group of the Anuttarayoga Tantras. Kalachakra Buddhism was presumably introduced to Tibet in the 11th century, the epoch of the Tibetan Kalachakra calendar.
The Kālacakra Tantra is more properly called the Laghu-kālacakratantra-rāja (Sovereign Abridged Kālacakra) and is said to be an abridged form of an original text, the Paramādibuddhatantra of the Shambala king Sucandra, which is no longer extant. [8] The author of the abridged tantra is said to have been the Shambala king Manjushriyasas.
Shambhala Training is a secular approach to meditation and a new religious movement developed by Tibetan ... Dzogchen, and the strange, vast Kalachakra tantra," [54] ...
The Wheel of Time or Kalachakra is a Tantric deity that is associated with Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, which encompasses all four main schools of Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu and Gelug, and is especially important within the lesser-known Jonang tradition. The Kalachakra tantra prophesies a world within which (religious) conflict is prevalent.
By practicing the Kalachakra, the whole of Shambhala became an enlightened society, with Suchandra as the ruler. King Suchandra wrote down the Kalachakra teachings he received, composing the 12,000-verse "Mula" or root text, which has not survived. He also built a huge three-dimensional Kalachakra mandala in the center of the kingdom.
The king then put the Kalachakra teachings in a condensed and simplified form called the "Sri Kalachakra" or "Laghutantra". [11] This work is also called the Condensed Kālachakra Tantra (bsdus rgyud, laghutantra). It is usual now simply called the Kālachakra Tantra, the original longer version one is no longer extant. [12]
Mipham showed particular interest in the Kalachakra and the kingdom of Shambhala, and one of his last and most extensive of his esoteric works are his two volumes of commentary, initiation and sadhana related to the Kalachakra Tantra, the esoteric teaching from Shambhala.
Unveiling Your Sacred Truth through the Kalachakra Path, Book Three: The Enlightened Reality. Tibetan Buddhist Rimé Institute. ISBN 978-0-9946106-69. Shar Khentrul Rinpoché (2021). The Realm of Shambhala: A Complete Vision for Humanity's Perfection. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1611808032.