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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. +
The ability to hold the elemental bodhicitta drops at points within the central channel and the resulting bliss. +
When, for example, the sun moves through Aries, Taurus, and Gemini—the last three houses of its northernjourney. +
The “garland meter” of the Condensed Tantra, with twenty-one Sanskrit syllables per line. step index (''rkang’dzin''). Measurement index of a planet’s position; set at zero on the equinox. +
Kālacakra literature mentions different kinds of bliss. They are not mutually exclusive. All are connected with the movements ofthe white elemental bodhicitta, or seminal fluid. Innate bliss is the bliss of withholding the fluid from emission, and is found throughout the completion stage. It is also the term used in tantras other than Kālacakra. Great innate bliss is used as a synonym for unchanging bliss. Falling bliss is the bliss of emission. Nonmoving bliss is the bliss generated from holding the elemental drops at points within the vajra body. In changing bliss, “changing” ('gyur ba) means emission (Jé Tsongkhapa, Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, p. 559), and therefore changing bliss is synonymous with falling bliss. However generation of changing bliss does not always mean emission of seminal fluid. Definitive unchanging bliss is first generated on the sixth branch, meditative concentration. Therefore bliss generated on the preceding branches, during which emission is prevented, has to be changing bliss, even though there is no emission. Alternatively bliss developed on the first flve branches is also called unchanging bliss or nonchanging bliss because emission is prevented, but it is not the definitive unchanging bliss. This is because a genuine unchanging bliss refers to the transformation of the material body by that bliss, which only begins on the sixth branch. +
When the sun, for example,moves through Cancer, Leo, and Virgo—the first three houses of its southernjourney +
Fixed or tied down; the ascendant; a particular time or period of time determined or fixed by stellar and planetary events. Alagnaoccurs whenever the sun enters a constellation of the zodiac, and so the sun has twelve lagna in a year. In a single day a new lagna occurs approximately every two hours, whenever a new constellation appears on the horizon. +
The ordinary or normal condition of sentient beings, especially with regard to the vajra body, before they enterthe tantric paths. +
In tantra gnosis is a primordial phenomenon of the vajra body, usually dwelling within the subtle drop at the heart cakra, andoften identified as the primordial mind of clear light. Gnosis is crucial to tantra’s total reliance on the human body as possessor of the perfect equipment, in the form of channels, winds, and drops, for the attainment of enlightenment. +
When, for example, the sun moves through Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius—the last three houses of itssouthern journey. +
The time of equal day and night when the mean sun enters the constellation of Aries. This Kālacakra tenet ends weight tothe argument that the Kālacakra calendar and zodiac is solar and not lunar. +
