A Brief Introduction to the Glorious Kalachakra
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Kalachakra is a Buddhist tantric system of teachings and is preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The Kalachakra tantra presents a unique astrological system, a system to make accurate calendars, and very elaborate rituals, all in order to support a practitioner on the path to enlightenment.
Kalachakra means Time Wheel, "Kala" is Sanskrit for Time and "Chakra" is Wheel. Much revolves around the concept of time and cycles: from the cycles of the planets, to the cycles of breath and practice of controlling the most subtle energies within one's body on the path to enlightenment.
The Kalachakra is unique among the practices of Highest Yoga Tantra. Its Buddhist core are concepts like renunciation, boddichitta, emptiness and enlightenment. Kalachakra is called the "clear" tantra, because its language is unusually clear and straightforward.
OUTER, INNER AND ALTERNATIVE KALACHAKRA 
Outer Kalachakra refers to the outer world which supports living beings. It is compounded by the six elements of earth, water, fire, air, space and wisdom; and all objects of smell, sight, taste, touch, sound and dharma.
Inner Kalachakra consists of the body and mind of living beings, the psychophysical aggregates, the sensory and psychic capacities. This includes the six types of living beings ( gods, demi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hell-beings), the six energy centres (chakras) of the body, the ten vital energies, the energy channels, and the eight drops that carry the instincts of the two obscurations.
Alternative ('Other') Kalachakra describes the spiritual method leading to enlightenment in the form of Kalachakra. It describes the initiation, the Generation and Completion Stage Yogas.
Through the Kalachakra sadhana [6 session yoga], the practitioner(microcosm) becomes an instrument for manifesting in the world (macrocosm), the universal harmony from the blueprint which is the Kalachakra mandala....the whole cosmos is a single living entity and all that makes it up is interconnected...A Buddha is described as one who has the thirty-two major marks and the eighty minor marks.
Through the Kalachakra sadhana [6 session yoga], the practitioner(microcosm)
becomes an instrument for manifesting in the world (macrocosm), the universal
harmony from the blueprint which is the Kalachakra mandala....the whole cosmos
is a single living entity and all that makes it up is interconnected...A Buddha is
described as one who has the thirty-two major marks and the eighty minor marks.
Glorious Kalachakra
Kalachakra deity represents omniscience, as everything is under the influence of time, and he is time and therefore knows all.
A four-faced deity with 24 arms who subdues violence.
If participants complete the Kalachakra with the best of intentions -- to bring happiness to all living beings -- they can achieve a higher state of enlightenment.
Ideal being is the bodhisattva, a person who puts off his own nirvana in order to relieve the suffering of others.
