page_title: Kalachakra
section_title: History and origin
hierarchical_section_title: Kalachakra / History and origin
caption_attribution_description: English: Image taken from a publication by Sarat Chandra Das (1849-1917), "Contributions on Tibet", in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. LI (1882), so it is in the public domain. John Hill 22:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
context_page_description: The Kālacakra, Tibetan: དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ།, Wylie: dus kyi 'khor lo; Mongolian: Цогт Цагийн Хүрдэн Tsogt Tsagiin Hurden; Chinese: 時輪 is a term used in Puranic text and in Vajrayana Buddhism that means "wheel of time". "Kālacakra" is the name of the foundational Buddhist tantric treatise of this tradition, composed in Sanskrit and later translated into Tibetan. The original Sanskrit texts of the Kālacakra tradition "originated during the early decades of the 11th century CE, and we know with certainty that the Śrī Kālacakra and the Vimalaprabhā commentary were completed between 1025 and ca. 1040 CE."
  "Kālacakra" is one of many tantric teachings and esoteric practices in Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. The tradition's origins are in India and its most active later history and presence has been in the monasteries of Tibet. The tradition combines myth and history, whereby actual historical events become an allegory for the spiritual drama within a person, drawing symbolic or allegorical lessons for inner transformation towards realizing Buddha-nature. The most important texts of this tradition include the Kālacakratantra and the expository commentary on it called Vimalaprabhā.
caption: Mañjushrīkīrti (Tibetan: འཇམ་དཔལ་གྲགས་པ, THL Jampel Drakpa), King of Shambhala
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