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The Kālacakra, or “wheel of time,” tantra likely entered Indian Mahayana Buddhism around the tenth century. In expounding the root tantra, the Indian master Puṇḍarīka, one of the legendary Kalkī kings of the land of Shambhala, wrote his influential Stainless Light. Ornament of Stainless Light is an authoritative Tibetan exposition of this important text, composed in the fifteenth century by Khedrup Norsang Gyatso, tutor to the Second Dalai Lama.
One of the central projects of Kālacakra literature is a detailed correlation between the human body and the external universe. In working out this complex correspondence, the Kālacakra texts present an amazingly detailed theory of cosmology and astronomy, especially about the movements of the various celestial bodies. The Kālacakra tantra is also a highly complex system of Buddhist theory and practice that employs vital bodily energies, deep meditative mental states, and a penetrative focus on subtle points within the body’s key energy conduits known as channels. Ornament of Stainless Light addresses all these topics, elaborating on the external universe, the inner world of the individual, the Kālacakra initiation rites, and the tantric stages of generation and completion, all in a highly readable English translation. (Source: Wisdom Publications)On the topic of this person
Other names
- མཁས་གྲུབ་ནོར་བཟང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
- mkhas grub nor bzang rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)
Affiliations & relations
- Father–Namkha Pelzang (nam mkha' dpal bzang) · familial relation
- Mother–Chokyab Bumnyi (chos skyabs 'bum gnyis) · familial relation
- Kadam · religious affiliation
- Geluk · religious affiliation
- Sherab Sengge · teacher
- blo gros mgon po · teacher
- chos 'phel rgyal mtshan · teacher
- Khyenrab Wangchuk Drakpa Zangpo · teacher
- Taktsang Lotsāwa Sherab Rinchen · teacher
- The First Dalai Lama, Gendun Drub · teacher
- The Fifth Ganden Tripa, Lodro Chokyong · teacher
- grags pa 'od zer · teacher
- rong bo blo bzang · teacher
- blo gros sbas pa · teacher
- Dalai Lama, 2nd · student