This new Kālacakra mantra composition and vocals is the creation of Adele Tomlin, a Buddhist scholar-translator of Kālacakra texts and books, and of an important philosophical commentary on the Empty-of-Other Heart Sutra commentary by Tibetan Buddhist master of Kālacakra, Jonang and Shangpa Kagyu lineages, Je Tāranatha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBcQa3sF1_8 I have received the Kālacakra empowerment a few… Continue reading TEN POWERFUL SEEDS: KALACHAKRA MANTRA
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Kālacakra Tantra Commemoration Day Offering: 8th Karmapa on Kālacakra as the “ultimate vehicle”, the fourth empowerment, and Mahāmudrā and “Auspicious Buddha Essence” by Kunkhyen Dolpopa
"Only with the supramundane empowerments from the Kālacakra will one attain the ultimate goal: the “pervasive Vajrasattva”. In this system there is the third empowerment—which brings forth the ultimate wisdom of the Great Seal [Mahāmudrā], and the fourth empowerment—is not mixed with the worldly siddhis." --8th Karmapa "Auspicious – that which has abandoned all habitual… Continue reading Kālacakra Tantra Commemoration Day Offering: 8th Karmapa on Kālacakra as the “ultimate vehicle”, the fourth empowerment, and Mahāmudrā and “Auspicious Buddha Essence” by Kunkhyen Dolpopa
NEW PALPUNG KĀLACAKRA (CYCLE OF TIME) TANTRA “FIRE-HORSE” YEAR DIARY 2026-2027
The warmth of spring, the drum of summer thunder, Snow melts into spring rain, and marmots awaken from their slumber. Tibetan New Year, a joyous celebration, Fills all mountains and valleys with the fragrant aroma of incense. དཔྱིད་ཀྱི་དྲོད་ལྡང་དབྱར་རྔའི་སྒྲ་སྒྲོག་ཅིང་།། ཁ་བ་ཆར་འགྱུར་འཕྱི་བ་མལ་ལས་ལྡང༌།། བོད་ལུཊ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་བཞད་དགའ་སྟོན་གྱི།། རི་ཀླུང་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤོས་ཀྱིས་དྲི་བཟང་སྤུད།། Introduction Recently, I was fortunate and happy to be given this brand new edition… Continue reading NEW PALPUNG KĀLACAKRA (CYCLE OF TIME) TANTRA “FIRE-HORSE” YEAR DIARY 2026-2027
NEW WEBSITE SECTION: BHUTAN
Inspired by the Kālacakra empowerment 2025 in Bhutan, and other activities of HH 70th Je Khenpo on the full ordination of the nuns, I have created a new section of the Dakini Translations website dedicated to articles about or connected to the sacred Buddhist country of Bhutan, see here. A downloadable pdf file of Je… Continue reading NEW WEBSITE SECTION: BHUTAN
SEEING VAJRAVĀRĀHI IN KĀLACAKRA (BHUTAN KĀLACAKRA 2025: PART I): The first mass Kālacakra empowerment in Bhutan by HH Je Khenpo, the Vajravārāhi/Abhayākaragupta tradition of the Vajrāvalī (Dorje Threngwa, Vajra Garland) Kālacakra, and spontaneous meeting, blessings and “priceless” auspicious gifts from Dorje Phagmo Khandro tulku in Bhutan 2025
"Mother of all the Victors, endowed with all supreme aspects,The 'face' of Vajravārāhi, symbolising the signs and meaningWith the certain knowing from seeing self-awareness itselfMay the primordial wisdom vajra descend here now!" (Tr. Adele Tomlin (2020)) རྒྱལ་ཀུན་སྐྱེད་ཡུམ་རྣམ་ཀུན་མཆོག་ལྡན་པའི། བརྡ་དོན་རྟགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོའི་ཞལ།རང་རིག་ཉིད་དུ་མཐོང་བའི་ངེས་ཤེས་ཀྱིས། རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྟེན་འདིར་དབབ་དུ་གསོལ། "Because he had recited the mantra of Vajrayogini in his former life, in this life Vajrayogini… Continue reading SEEING VAJRAVĀRĀHI IN KĀLACAKRA (BHUTAN KĀLACAKRA 2025: PART I): The first mass Kālacakra empowerment in Bhutan by HH Je Khenpo, the Vajravārāhi/Abhayākaragupta tradition of the Vajrāvalī (Dorje Threngwa, Vajra Garland) Kālacakra, and spontaneous meeting, blessings and “priceless” auspicious gifts from Dorje Phagmo Khandro tulku in Bhutan 2025
TURNING THE WHEEL OF TIME: Kālacakra Duchen and Amitabha Day (Full moon day)
According to the Tibetan Tsurphu calendar, today's full moon (15th day of 3rd lunar month) is a very auspicious day, as Buddha Amithāba Day, on which the effects of all actions are multiplied 100 times and practice is emphasized. It is also the day on which Buddha Shakyamuni was said to have given the teaching… Continue reading TURNING THE WHEEL OF TIME: Kālacakra Duchen and Amitabha Day (Full moon day)
KNOWING ONE LIBERATES ALL: Compilation of deities by 9th Karmapa and Kālacakra in Karma Kagyu: Transmissions and empowerments by 12th Gyeltsab Rinpoche
'Knowing One Liberates All' - October 2019 I recently had the great fortune to attend the Liberating All by Knowing One (gChig shes kun grol) (sometimes translated as Knowing One Liberates All) empowerments given by Kagyu heart-son, HE 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche at his Palchen Chosling Monastery seat in Ralang, Sikkim from 8th until 20th October… Continue reading KNOWING ONE LIBERATES ALL: Compilation of deities by 9th Karmapa and Kālacakra in Karma Kagyu: Transmissions and empowerments by 12th Gyeltsab Rinpoche
The ‘nature’ and ‘meaning’ of mantra, tantra and the ten-syllables in Kālacakra by Jamgon Kongtrul
Introduction The Tibetan word for mantra is ngag (sngags) and translators often mistakenly translate this as meaning tantra. Sometimes referring to the Tantra vehicle, for translating mantrayana (sngags kyi thegs pa). However, the Tibetan word for tantra is gyu (rgyud) and both words do not necessarily mean the same thing. I have been reading Book… Continue reading The ‘nature’ and ‘meaning’ of mantra, tantra and the ten-syllables in Kālacakra by Jamgon Kongtrul