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Kālacakra Tantra

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The Kālachakra (Sanskrit: कालचक्र, Tibetan: དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ།) is a term used in Vajrayana Buddhism that means "wheel(s) of time". Kālacakra refers both to a patron Tantric deity or yidam (Wylie: yi dam) of Vajrayana Buddhism and to the philosophies and meditation practices contained within the Kālacakra Tantra and its many commentaries.

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Sekoddeśa

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Summary of Empowerment: Degé Kangyur, vol. 77 (rgyud, ka), folios 14.a–21.a.

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ADARSHA

Kālacakramahāpāda: Pad ma can zhes bya ba'i dka' 'grel

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Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Lotus Girl: Degé Tengyur, vol. 1350 (rgyud, na) 72b5-220a7

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Yumo Mikyö Dorje: Gsal sgron skor bzhi

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Cycle of the Four Illuminated Lamps. Treatises on the sadhana practice of the Kālacakra Tantra.

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Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen: Bstan pa spyi 'grel

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The General Commentary on the Doctrine

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Nyawon Kunga Pal: 'Khrul 'joms dang bstan pa spyi 'grel gyi rnam bshad

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Dispelling the Darkness of the Psyche by Illuminating the Intent, a commentary on Dolpopa's Bstan pa spyi 'grel.

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Chokle Namgyal: Gzhi lam 'bras bu'i ngo sprod yang dag don gsal

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Pointing Out the Ground, Path, and Fruition. A Treatise on the Kalacharka Tantra along with a short delineation of the two truths and a prayer to Shambhala.

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śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt. शून्यता Tib. སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་ Ch. 空,空門

Kālacakra - Can refer to either the Kālacakra Tantra and its derivative texts or to the systematic tantric tradition based on these texts, as well as the deity Kālacakra upon which the associated practices are centered. Skt. कालचक्र Tib. དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། Ch. 時輪

tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗

tathāgatagarbha - Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Skt. तथागतगर्भ Tib. དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ Ch. 如来藏

These are the root verses of the Uttaratantra attributed to Maitreya by the Tibetan tradition.

"This sūtra became an important scriptural source for the discussion of buddha-nature in China and is famous for associating the term buddhadhātu with tathāgatagarbha.

Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib. ཇོ་ནང་