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Emptiness taught in Kālacakra is of two kinds. In a strictly Geluk interpretation, aspected emptinessrefers to empty forms in general and specifically to the mahāmudrā consort “endowed with every supreme aspect.” This is the main “wisdom” meditation of the six yogas, the kāla of Kālacakra, and the direct cause of the enlightened body of Kālacakra. Nonaspected emptiness is the ultimate truth emptiness taught in the perfection of wisdom sutras and is the object of the bliss consciousness, or clear-light mind, manifested in the completion stage. It is the main “method” meditation, the cakra of Kālacakra, and the direct cause of the dharmakāya or enlightened mind of Kālacakra. Alternatively Kīrti Tsenshap Rinpoché says that according to Khedrup Jé, aspected emptiness is specific ultimate-truth emptiness linked to specific phenomena, while nonaspected emptiness is the general phenomenon of emptiness. The Jonang tradition would say that the nonaspected emptiness as taught in the perfection of wisdom sutras, or the second turning of the wheel of dharma, has no essence, is a nihilistic emptiness, and therefore is ineffective in the development of enlightenment. Aspected emptiness, on the other hand, refers to the ultimate-truth buddha essence eternally present in al living beings or, in a tantric sense, to the ultimate-truth māhamudrā consort “endowed with every supreme aspect,” whose practice will lead to enlightenment in the form of Kālacakra. +
When the planets, commencing from the mean sun, move through the progressive and and regressive early and later steps by way ofincrement and decrement. +
The deities that inhabit the base mandalas of the celestial mansion. +
The averaged or mean orbit of a planet. +
Echo-like aspiration of preceding vowel in Sanskrit, romanized as ḥ +
In Kālacakra literature a simile for empty form wherein forms or images miraculously appear of their own volition in aclairvoyant’s mirror +
The afflictions, chief of which is ignorance, that create karma and perpetuate thecircling of samsara +
An essential characteristic of those empty forms that arise by their own volition. +
The averaged-out position of the sun on the assumption that its northern and southern passages through the constellations are at aconstant speed, without taking into consideration its fast and slow stages +
Generally, a highly developed meditative concentration, whose power divorces the mind temporarily fromafflictions such as desire. It shares essential characteristics with meditative concentration and peaceful abiding. Specifically, in the Sutra Vehicle, it refers to the four meditative absorptions that act as causes for birth in the form or Brahmā realms. In Kālacakra, meditative absorption is the second of the six yogas +
The nonmaterial, empty-form nature of phenomena of the three realms at the time of the final attainmentof enlightenment. +
Months are either waxing-led or waning-led depending on which half of the lunar month ofCaitra the sun enters Aries. Entering Aries in the waxing or “bright” half designates Caitra as a waxing-led month beginning from the first lunar day of the waxing. That month becomes the first month of the new year. When the sun enters Aries during the waning or “dark” half of Caitra, Vaiśākha is posited as beginning from that full moon and becomes the first month of the new year. +
The “moving air” that flows within the channels of the vajra body, or anatomically the mobility of bodily constituents.Although srog (prāṇa) sometimes refers to the life-sustaining air that flows mainly through the right and left channels above the navel, in Kālacakra it is also a general term for the ten winds. Rlung as “wind” has been distinguished from meaning the element of air, even though the same word is used in Tibetan. +
Particles added to roots in Sanskrit +
Right channel above the navel. +
Nasalization of the previous contiguousvowel, romanized as ṃ. +
Refers to the emission or “falling” of semen. See also bliss. +
The fourth chapter of the Condensed Kālacakra dealing with generation-stage practices, and often used torefer to their written form +
Etymologically a meditative absorption in which all mental and bodily elements are evenly balanced. Intantra it often refers to sexual union with a consort +
