Description
The present Dalai Lama has long been promoting Kalacakra for World Peace, giving the Kalacakra Initiation many times, to hundreds of thousands of people all around the world. This has created much interest in Kalacakra. Yet, despite the existence of three previous editions of the Kalacakra-tantra, until now we have not had a reliable edition of this fundamental Sanskrit text. All of the previous editions, for different reasons, have numerous errors. The present corrected edition seeks to remedy that. Full use of a very early manuscript of the Kalacakra-tantra, brought to Tibet in the early 1200s by the Indian teacher Vibhuticandra, has made possible many corrections to all the existing editions. Full use has also been made of another early manuscript that had been brought to Tibet, dated 1264 CE. Use of three other important manuscripts that had not been used in any previous edition, along with reference to early manuscripts of the Vimalaprabha commentary, and full reference to the early Tibetan translations, have made essential contributions. For the indispensable full reference to the early Tibetan translations it was necessary to have accurate editions of them. For this reason, corrected editions of the standard Tibetan translation by Somanatha and ’Bro lotsawa, and of its revision by the Jonang translators, were made and included. This has also allowed us to see exactly what the Jonang revision consisted of. Altogether, the full use of the Sanskrit manuscript sources described above, and the full use of the newly edited Tibetan translations, have made possible the first reliable edition of the Kalacakra-tantra.
