]> 2026-10-16T05:22:13-04:00 Texts/Kālacakratantra 0 en false Tibetan Text RKTSK 362 true Kangyur · Tantra · rgyud 362 Classical Works dus 'khor; dang po'i sangs rgyas; dus kyi 'khor lo landscape (pecha) The ''Kālacakratantra'' is an early eleventh-century esoteric treatise belonging to the class of unexcelled yoga-tantras (''anuttara-yoga-tantra''). To the best of our knowledge, it was the last ''anuttara-yoga-tantra'' to appear in India.<br>According to the Kālacakra tradition, the extant version of the ''Kālacakratantra'' is an abridged version of the larger original tantra, called the ''Paramādibuddha'', that was taught by the Buddha Śākyamuni to Sucandra, the king of Śambhala and an emanation of Vajrapāṇi, in the Dhānyakaṭaka stūpa, a notable center of Mahāyāna in the vicinity of the present-day village of Amarāvatī in Andhra Pradesh. Upon receiving instruction on the ''Paramādibuddhatantra'' and returning to Śambhala, King Sucandra wrote it down and propagated it throughout his kingdom. His six successors continued to maintain the inherited tradition, and the eighth king of Śambhala, Mañjuśrī Yaśas, composed the abridged version of the ''Parāmadibuddhatantra'', which is handed down to us as the ''Sovereign Abridged Kālacakratantra'' (''Laghukālacakratantrarāja''). It is traditionally taught that it is composed of 1,030 verses written in the ''sradgharā'' meter. However, various Sanskrit manuscripts and editions of the ''Laghukālacakratantra'' contain a somewhat larger number of verses, ranging from 1,037 to 1,047 verses. The term an “abridged tantra” (''laghu-tantra'') has a specific meaning in Indian Buddhist tantric tradition. Its traditional interpretation is given in Naḍapādas (Nāropā) ''Sekoddeśaṭīkā'', which states that in every ''yoga'', ''yoginī'', and other types of ''tantras'', the concise, general explanations (''uddeśa'') and specific explanations (''nirdeśa'') make up a tantric discourse (''tantra-saṃgīti''), and that discourse, which is an exposition (''uddeśana'') there, is an entire abridged ''tantra''.<br>The tradition tells us that Mañjuśrī Yaśas's successor Puṇḍarīka, who was an emanation of Avalokiteśvara, composed a large commentary on the ''Kālacakratantra'', called the ''Stainless Light'' (''Vimalaprabhā''), which became the most authoritative commentary on the ''Kālacakratantra'' and served as the basis for all subsequent commentarial literature of that literary corpus. The place of the ''Vimalaprabhā'' in the Kālacakra literary corpus is of great importance, for in many instances, without the Vimalaprabhā, it would be practically impossible to understand not only the broader implications of the ''Kālacakratantra''' cryptic verses and often grammatically corrupt sentences but their basic meanings. It has been said that the ''Kālacakratantra'' is explicit with regard to the tantric teachings that are often only implied in the other ''anuttara-yoga-tantras'', but this explicitness is actually far more characteristic of the ''Vimalaprabhā'' than of the ''Kālacakratantra'' itself. (Source: Wallace, Vesna A. ''The Inner Kālacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: pp. 2-3.) mchog gi dang po'i sangs rgyas las phyung ba rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal dus kyi 'khor lo zhes bya ba Paramādibuddhoddhṛtaśrīkālacakratantrarāja མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལས་ཕྱུང་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། Kālacakra (84000) RKTSK 362;mchog gi dang po'i sangs rgyas las phyung ba rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal dus kyi 'khor lo zhes bya ba;མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལས་ཕྱུང་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།;Paramādibuddhoddhṛtaśrīkālacakratantrarāja;དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད། Sanskrit Sanskrit,Tibetan Text-tile.png Yes Definitive Definitive Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature 1 (Fourth Turning) Madhyamaka laghutantra; Laghukālacakratantrarāja; paramādibuddhoddhrita-śrī-kālacakra-nāma-tantrarājā; Paramādibuddhoddhrita; śrī-kālacakra-tantrarājā; paramādibuddhoddhṛtaśrīkālacakranāmatantrarāja; Śrīlaghukālacakratantra; Kālacakratantra Sanskrit Original Work Sutra dpal dus kyi 'khor lo'i bsdus pa'i rgyud དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད་ནི། མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་དོན་བསྡུས་ནས་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱུད་དེ། མཛད་པ་པོ་ཤམ་བྷ་ལའི་རིགས་ལྡན་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྲགས་པས་མཛད་པ་སྟེ། འདི་ལ་ལེའུ་ལྔ་ཡོད་ཅིང་། ཤོ་ལོ་ཀ་༡༠༣༠ ཙམ་ཡོད་པ་དང་། དེའི་བསྟན་དོན། ཕྱི་རྒྱུ་སྐར་གྱི་རྣམ་གཞག་དང་། ནང་སེམས་ཅན་དང་རྩ་ལུང་ཐིག་ལེའི་རྣམ་གཞག་དང་། སྨིན་བྱེད་ཀྱི་དབང་དང་། དུས་འཁོར་གྱི་ལྷ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་དང་། ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གཞག་རྣམས་བསྟན་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། བསྡུས་རྒྱུད་འདི་ལ་རྒྱ་གར་ཏུ་དྲི་མེད་འོད་སོགས་དང་། བོད་དུ་འགྲེལ་པ་དུ་མ་ཡོད་ཅིང་། དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་ཆོས་སྐོར་གྱི་གཞུང་གཙོ་བོ་ཡིན། དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད། Tantras - rgyud The ''Kālacakratantra'' is an early eleventh-century esoteric treatise belonging to the class of unexcelled yoga-tantras (''anuttara-yoga-tantra''). To the best of our knowledge, it was the last ''anuttara-yoga-tantra'' to appear in India.<br>According to the Kālacakra tradition, the extant version of the ''Kālacakratantra'' is an abridged version of the larger original tantra, called the ''Paramādibuddha'', that was taught by the Buddha Śākyamuni to Sucandra, the king of Śambhala and an emanation of Vajrapāṇi, in the Dhānyakaṭaka stūpa, a notable center of Mahāyāna in the vicinity of the present-day village of Amarāvatī in Andhra Pradesh. Upon receiving instruction on the ''Paramādibuddhatantra'' and returning to Śambhala, King Sucandra wrote it down and propagated it throughout his kingdom. His six successors continued to maintain the inherited tradition, and the eighth king of Śambhala, Mañjuśrī Yaśas, composed the abridged version of the ''Parāmadibuddhatantra'', which is handed down to us as the ''Sovereign Abridged Kālacakratantra'' (''Laghukālacakratantrarāja''). It is traditionally taught that it is composed of 1,030 verses written in the ''sradgharā'' meter. However, various Sanskrit manuscripts and editions of the ''Laghukālacakratantra'' contain a somewhat larger number of verses, ranging from 1,037 to 1,047 verses. The term an “abridged tantra” (''laghu-tantra'') has a specific meaning in Indian Buddhist tantric tradition. Its traditional interpretation is given in Naḍapādas (Nāropā) ''Sekoddeśaṭīkā'', which states that in every ''yoga'', ''yoginī'', and other types of ''tantras'', the concise, general explanations (''uddeśa'') and specific explanations (''nirdeśa'') make up a tantric discourse (''tantra-saṃgīti''), and that discourse, which is an exposition (''uddeśana'') there, is an entire abridged ''tantra''.<br>The tradition tells us that Mañjuśrī Yaśas's successor Puṇḍarīka, who was an emanation of Avalokiteśvara, composed a large commentary on the ''Kālacakratantra'', called the ''Stainless Light'' (''Vimalaprabhā''), which became the most authoritative commentary on the ''Kālacakratantra'' and served as the basis for all subsequent commentarial literature of that literary corpus. The place of the ''Vimalaprabhā'' in the Kālacakra literary corpus is of great importance, for in many instances, without the Vimalaprabhā, it would be practically impossible to understand not only the broader implications of the ''Kālacakratantra''' cryptic verses and often grammatically corrupt sentences but their basic meanings. It has been said that the ''Kālacakratantra'' is explicit with regard to the tantric teachings that are often only implied in the other ''anuttara-yoga-tantras'', but this explicitness is actually far more characteristic of the ''Vimalaprabhā'' than of the ''Kālacakratantra'' itself. (Source: Wallace, Vesna A. ''The Inner Kālacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: pp. 2-3.) mchog gi dang po'i sangs rgyas las phyung ba rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal dus kyi 'khor lo zhes bya ba;Paramādibuddhoddhṛtaśrīkālacakratantrarāja;མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལས་ཕྱུང་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།;RKTSK 362;Texts/Kālacakratantra RKTSK 362;Kālacakratantra;mchog gi dang po'i sangs rgyas las phyung ba rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal dus kyi 'khor lo zhes bya ba;Paramādibuddhoddhṛtaśrīkālacakratantrarāja;མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལས་ཕྱུང་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། Kangyur 2021-05-25T13:56:29Z 2459360.0808912 2021-05-25T13:56:29Z 2459360.0808912 true '"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000000-QINU`"' Texts/Kālacakratantra mchog gi dang po'i sangs rgyas las phyung ba rgyud kyi rgyal po dpal dus kyi 'khor lo zhes bya ba Paramādibuddhoddhṛtaśrīkālacakratantrarāja མཆོག་གི་དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་ལས་ཕྱུང་བ་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དཔལ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། 0 1 plainlist 2 [[BuNayTopicTags::Texts/Kālacakratantra]] '"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000000-QINU`"'# QUERY81c704fe944088f7f2cf3fbbe1f8f198 0 200 1 template 2 [[BuNayTopicTags::~"Kālacakratantra"]] '"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000000-QINU`"'# QUERY50c9c8efc133ef17468d13e018090b59 0 0 plainlist 1 [[::]] '"`UNIQ--noglossary-00000000-QINU`"'# QUERY6ee7d0bb3ac4ed35537bcb89914b30ac Kālacakratantra 0 en Kālacakratantra REDI 102 en REDI