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The 14th Dalai Lama's 33rd Kalachakra ceremony was held in Leh, Ladakh, India, from July 3 to July 12, 2014. About 150,000 devotees and 350,000 tourists were expected to participate in the festival. [139] The Dalai Lama, Kalu Rinpoche, and others have stated that the public exposition of this tantra is necessary in the current degenerate age ...
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 December 2024. Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso The Dalai Lama in 2012 14th Dalai Lama Reign 22 February 1940 – present Predecessor 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso Regent 5th Reting Rinpoche, Jamphel Yeshe Gyaltsen (1934–1941) 3rd Taktra Rinpoche (1941–1950 ...
The Kalachakra Tantra initiation was given in the West for the first time at Deer Park July, 1981. [3] He was a trustee on the International Committee for Peace Council. Sopa died of natural causes at Deer Park Buddhist Center in August 2014, age 92. [4]
The film documents the two Kalachakra initiations of 2002, presided over by the fourteenth Dalai Lama. The first, in Bodhgaya India, was disrupted by the Dalai Lama's illness. Later that same year, the event was held again, this time without disruption, in Graz , Austria .
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]
The Kalachakra Mandala for instance, contains 722 deities portrayed within the complex structure and geometry of the mandala itself. Other smaller mandalas, such as the one attributed to Vajrabhairava , contain significantly fewer deities and require less geometry, but still take several days to complete.
Khentrul Rinpoché travels all over the world to teach Kalachakra. [8] Furthermore, he founded Dzokden, an international community for Kalachakra practitioners that advocates for world peace from a Jonang perspective and Kalachakra in particular. [9] He was recognized as the reincarnation of the great Kalachakra Yogi Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. In ...