CHAPTER I CURRENT STATUS FRAME OF KALACHAKRA.

My first real encounter with Kalachakra tantric tradition in late 1973. I was living and studying in Dharamsala, India. The Dalai Lama will lead a Kalachakra ceremony for the public, and I decided to attend. Hearing that he presided over the ceremony, everyone in the community joy flooded Tibet with tangible ideas. Venue for the ceremony is Bodh Gaya (Bodh Gaya) - A small village, quiet town of Gaya, Bihar state a few miles to the south.

Bodh Gaya is considered the spiritual center of Buddhism in the world. At least in the sense that the early history of this place. This is where the monks blow enlightenment under the Bodhi origin and where he became Buddha. Of the eight holy places of Buddhist pilgrimage in India. Bodh Gaya is considered most sacred. Indeed, some Buddhist traditions also say that all of a thousand Buddhas of this life is responsible for the realms of sentient beings will become enlightened in Bodhgaya.

XIII Century - XIV, Islamic Turkish invasion that devastated this area. Muslims especially brutalized Buddhism in India. They say: When Nalanda monastery was surrounded. All monks were beheaded on the spot. All blood stained walls. Temples and libraries were burned. All statues and reliefs crushed wild.

Center Bodhgaya Buddhist past is just a ruin. With a few shops and restaurants poor countries. A number of "slum" in the back, and Stupa few other houses can only be seen as the simple accommodation of mankind. The main stupa and below ground gardens are great monuments. Together with Bodhi Bodhi descendant of the original Buddha. There are still many statues and worship is largely buried should escape destruction during Muslim attacks.

After the dismantling of Islam. Bodhgaya is no longer the center of international pilgrimage again. World Buddhist pilgrims find other places more convenient as the Central Asian pilgrims in Lhasa - the capital of Tibet, the Chinese go Wutai Mountain, Japan to Kyoto. Bodhgaya only flourishes on in the 1950s. When Prime Minister Nehru proposed a Buddhist country in the world should build a temple here. Since then, more than a dozen temples have been planted.

In the late '50s. Early '60s to 1973 wave of Tibetan refugees to India created many new activities in Bodh Gaya. With the presence of the high Tibetan Lama. The Tibetan delegation pilgrims at Bodh Gaya caught the attention of the origin of Buddhism in the Himalayan ranges. From Ladakh, Lahoarl, Spiti and western Kinnanr to Sikkim, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh upper east. All of the Tibetan Buddhism. In the winter months, when the weather in Bihar state becomes soft. Thousands of people to worship where the Buddha attained enlightenment also known as Diamond coordinates.

When the news the Dalai Lama personally preside over the Kalachakra ceremony in the sacred place for the first time. The entire Buddhist Himalayas are vibrant. Two months before the ceremony for the celebration. The group of pilgrims began to congregate at Bodh Gaya. Most of them want to chant a few hundred thousand times the main mantra of this pilgrimage. Or a hundred thousand times a year prostrate body stretching forehead to the ground, including two shoulder two knees. Others intend to circumambulate the stupa of several thousand rounds. Ceremony for the Dalai Lama would be great for the end of their devotion.

For Central Asia. Kalachakra ceremony for the major conferences as well as Buddhism. People go to the village or the tribe. Old, young, big, baby. Ride, walk or Hold, carrying on his back. Springing up around the buying and selling services, talk to the pilgrims. Most pilgrims carry a few items to sell for money spent on his return journey. These small items the most common. Somewhere there are also stalls selling a cloth on the road. In celebration of the Bodh Gaya in 1985, including a circus, the wheel spins and swings round. With the air of a recreation field .

Do nomadic tradition is still strong so Tibetans do not seem to bother much about the lack of comfort of living in Bodh Gaya. Some reside in temples in the area with meager facilities. Others hire a small porch or in the nearby villages. Most tents on the banks of any song or any vacant land parcels. Indian Army placed a large drinking water systems and mobile toilets and in a short time, a tent city sprang up. Of the Kalachakra ceremony in Bodhgaya in 1985 more than three hundred thousand people attended.

Among those attending the point. Very few people practice meditation seriously the tradition of Kalachakra. Maybe in a hundred new practice allows a simple chant daily as Guruyoga subjects (consistent master). In one out of thousands of people may have found a real desire to practice yoga six. And among these people only come to a retreat at an essential part of the practice.

Most participants sat for the ceremony not to be the energy transfer (value at) as permission to practice meditation. They came to be mixed on the glory of the spiritual community with information Lama presides. In this case, the Dalai Lama, they hope to get a little spiritual power of the festival. They also hope to create an affinity with, and the Shambala Lama - pure magical Land of Kalachakra teachings.

Before the ceremony the director, often preaching in five or six days. These teachings start at noon and continues until dark. People sit on mats in the sun and listening to children playing among the adult group. The lactating mothers while older people secretly asleep in the shade. Scholarship steady bass voice of the Dalai Lama on their surfing from a speaker system.

This study was said in the teachings are similar to those presented in this essay: "Prerequisites To Be The Religion of esoteric Buddhism" of the Dalai Lama VII. Following are some teachings of the official ceremony. Begin with a dance celebration of the Lama, said the ceremony venue and the ceremony of the offering. This is followed by two or three days the director. Usually there is a holiday "Gurupuja". Lama sermon in which a point before the ceremony ended.

Finally, the participants lined up throughout the Assembly made provisionally on the graph made of colored sand mandala of Kalachakra tradition. They passed before the Dalai Lama to be blessed by placing his hand on top. In the 1973 ceremony for the Dalai Lama "Manual Transmission capacity" or "Chakwang" during the two days. I decided to go in line with the eyes looking down the style homage to the Tibetans. When you go through before the chair and put his hand to touch up my short beard. Startled I looked up and saw the smiling Dalai Lama.

Thus, the ceremony for the last from ten to twelve days. Participants gathered from noon to dusk. In addition each legal hearings, they run away to make everyday tasks such as food, beverages, find lost children, washing the dust on a bit, to avoid the crowd not to be stepped on and other things. . . Traders continue to offer, make more money on the occasion of the director and occasional scuffles. Once, in the teachings of the Dalai Lama, a Bhutanese farmer stepped on a coat of the original nomads in Kham Tibet. Because so unintentionally as this person was stabbed a fatal stab.

I first came into contact with such traditional Kalachakra. The Assembly ceremony like a Tantric mystic and strange. Taking place around the clock for two weeks rather than a strictly religious ceremony. The birth mother; elderly die. The Lama and meditation practitioners of any tree or in any burrows that. The lovers sneaked to the river at night. All are equal here, around the Kalachakra sand mandala in the middle of the village and now is the center of the universe.

Spiritual energy flows from the land of heat waves as in the distant horizon. Sleep full of dreams, life and barely able to distinguish real experiences and dreams. Suddenly the end of the ceremony as a marathon race ends with a few sporadic running about.

The crowd slowly dispersed as not to leave the place promised to gather again an adventure. Many people continue to sacred places of pilgrimage in a month or two before returning home in the mountains. Or that valley in the Himalayan ranges. They returned to the fields and gardens or livestock. With monasteries, temples and pagodas. Or return to the refugee settlements scattered from northern Ladakh to southern Mysore. Since then, the Dalai Lama has repeatedly bestowed the Kalachakra. And I was lucky to attend several times. I heard that he will celebrate the three points in the next year: In Mongolia, Dharamsala and New York. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY GESHE TASHI TSERING.( MHDT ).14/4/2012.OM MANI PADME HUM.( 3 TIMES ).