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Kālacakra

Also called Kalachakra · Kalacakra

A Buddhist tantric tradition and body of teaching conventionally called Wheel of Time. Its literature includes calendrical and astronomical material associated with later Tibetan calendar lineages.

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Word origin · etymology

Sanskrit title, conventionally translated Wheel of Time.

The teaching source uses Wheel of Time and distinguishes external, internal and alternative Kalachakra. This title is not simply another name for the Phugpa conversion algorithm.

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche · Overview of the Kalachakra System, Study Buddhism ↗

How we know · epistemology

Attributed religious tradition and historical mathematical transmission

Practitioner teaching documents the religious framework; Janson describes the calendar mathematics. Implementing one Phugpa date-conversion version does not reproduce the wider ritual, contemplative or cosmological system.

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche · Overview of the Kalachakra System, Study Buddhism ↗Svante Janson · Tibetan calendar mathematics ↗

Connected concepts

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Sources & provenance

Use the citations beside each section to distinguish a calculation convention, a historical teaching and an editorial example.

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  1. Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche · Overview of the Kalachakra System, Study Buddhism ↗
  2. Svante Janson · Tibetan calendar mathematics ↗