Kālacakra 


Bokar Rinpoche
Introduction to Kālacakra
Sanskrit and Symbolism
History
Kālacakra Practice
Seed Syllable
Wrathful Kālacakra
Depictions of the ground
Orbital Confusion
Sambhala Kings
Kālacakra empowerment in Poland, 2005
Kālacakra empowerment
The Six Yogas
Kālacakra Calendar
A Reformed Tibetan Calendar
Kālacakra and number


Kirti Tsenchap Rinpoche, a great
Kālacakra master, who passed away
on 16th December 2006.

When this website was first established a few years ago the use of Unicode for the representation of extended character sets was far from widely adopted. It was therefore decided not to use such characters on this website. However, the accurate representation of Sanskrit terminology and the Sanskrit vowels and consonants that are so important in Kālacakra symbolism require the use of various diacritic markings that are not in standard character sets.

The situation is now very different, and most modern operating systems and web browsers support Unicode well. The content of this website is now therefore in the process of being edited to include all necessary characters. If your web browser does not display these properly - such as the long "a" with a bar over it, as in the word Kālacakra - then it might be worth upgrading to a modern browser such as Mozilla Firefox. It might also be necessary to install the "Arial Unicode MS" font. This used to be available for download from Microsoft's website, but is unfortunately now only distributed by Microsoft with Office. An alternative font is "Times Extended Roman", available here: thdl.org. Also, see this link for a Russian translation of this website.

Click here for old non-Unicode pages. These will not be updated in future.

"All beings arise in time,

Time continually consumes them all,

Time is the Lord who possesses the vajra,

Whose nature is that of day and night."

For information regarding material on this site, please contact Edward Henning

Last modified 21st September 2008.