The Kalachakra tradition carries its own cosmic time scheme, separate from the tantra as a practice and from Shambhala as a place: a sixty year calendrical cycle still used to count years in the Tibetan calendar, and a succession of kings, the Kalki kings, said to rule the hidden kingdom of Shambhala until the last of them rides out to a prophesied final battle.
Facts
Dating
Proposed DatingSourced to the subject's own accountThe sixty year Rabjung cycle used to count years in the Tibetan calendar began in 1027 CE, a Fire Rabbit year, the date the tradition marks for the Kalachakra's own transmission; the calendar is still reckoned this way today, currently in the seventeenth Rabjung, which began on 28 February 1987. 1 Proposed DatingSourced to the subject's own accountThe tradition holds that a succession of kings, the Kalki kings, rule Shambhala, and that the twenty fifth and last of them, called Rudra Chakrin, is prophesied to ride out from the kingdom to a final battle set for the year 2424 or 2425 CE, the 3304th year after the Buddha's death, after which Buddhism is said to endure a further 1800 years. 2 Attributions
TraditionThe Tibetan Buddhist Kalachakra tradition, carried into Tibet from India in the eleventh century. 3 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
Source The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the IndividualVesna A. Wallace
Related To
Source The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the IndividualVesna A. Wallace
Source Kings of Shambhala (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Sources
1. Tibetan Calendar (Wikipedia)
2. Kings of Shambhala (Wikipedia)
3. The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual
Vesna A. Wallace, Oxford University Press, 2001
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