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The right channel above the navel. +
Literally, “to hold,” in the sense of developing the power to not forget the meaning of dharma words. Often it refers to mantra orspell-like recitations that produce powerful effects. Word, meaning, mantra, and forbearance are the four main types of dhāranī. +
An actual consort +
Calendrical calculation that employs addition to the mean position of a planet to ascertain true planetary position. +
Left channel above the navel. +
Predominantly referring to Viśvamātā, the mahāmudrāconsort, the highest development of aspected emptiness or empty form. +
The twelve daily shifts or movements of inner wind or breath from petal to petal of the navel channel wheel. These occurapproximately every two hours and are correlated with the twelve lagna or ascendants appearing on the horizon approximately every two hours. +
A consort is called a mudrā or “seal” because she guarantees or can be relied upon (yid ches, āpta) to grant bliss.The three main types of consorts are activity, wisdom, and mahāmudrā consort +
As well as referring to the afflictions and the corresponding karmicly produced phenomena of the world, in Kālacakra thinkingordinary phenomena, including the body, are “obscured” until they are transformed into nonmaterial empty form, which at its developmental peak is the enlightened form of Kālacakra and his enlightened surroundings +
Fleshly, celestial, wisdom, dharma, and gnosis: the suprasensory perception of empty forms occurring in completion stagemeditations, and generated by the winds entering the central channel. +
Usually referring to the desire, form, and formless realms. +
Generally, an advanced meditative development in which the mind can be effortlessly held toaparticular object. Although by its nature it is almost synonymous with meditative absorption and peaceful abiding, a meditative concentration is often used to develop powers or to bring about some magical transformation in inanimate phenomena. Because of this function meditative concentrations are variously named. In Kālacakra, meditative concentration is the sixth of the six yogas +
When the planets, commencing from their birth constellations, move through the progressive and regressive early and later stepsby way of increment and decrement. +
Here referring to empty-form Kālacakra and Visvamātā in union +
The celestial mansion and its inner mandalas that house or support the resident deities. +
A particle prefixed to roots in Sanskrit. +
According to most Tibetan traditions, karaṇa and siddhānta are two systems of astronomy.Siddhānta is the astronomy of the Kālacakra Root Tantra. This was weakened by the arrival of the barbarians and replaced by the more non-Buddhist karaṇa astronomy. Karaṇa astronomy was used by Kalki Mañjuśrī Yaśas in his compilation, the Condensed Kālacakra Tantra, in order to be in accord with the thoughts and beliefs of the non-Buddhist ṛṣi he was trying to convert. According to Edward Henning, siddhānta refers to the textbooks of astronomical theory used in ancient India, while karaṇa is the practical methodology of the siddhānta. +
The potential for the development of mental afflictions or, in Kālacakra, for the emission ofseminal fluid. +
The nonmaterial, atomless forms, developed only on the Kālacakra completion stage, that serve as bases for the development ofenlightened forms. Supreme among these empty forms is the mother-father Kālacakra union that replaces the flesh-and-blood body at the time of enlightenment. In other tantras a parallel can be found in the illusory body. Empty forms are created by the winds entering the central channel. Their appearance to the yogi is effortless and without contrivance, like prognostic images that appear in a clairvoyant's mirror. +
Subtraction used in calendrical calculation, usuallyfrom the mean position of a planet, to ascertain the true position. +
