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	Publisher: D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
	Author Niraj Kumar
	Language: English
	Pages: 354
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	10x7.5 inch
	Weight 920 gm
	Edition: 2025
	ISBN: 9788124613030
	HCD076

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About the Book The Kalacakra Tantra was the last major Tantric text composed before the decline of Buddhism in India. Over the course of its thousand-year journey, the book has left an indelible influence over different regions of Asia. Apart from the Vimalaprabha commentary composed during the mid-eleventh century, no verse-by-verse commentary is available to the general reader. Kumar has translated the entire 1,047 stanzas of the text written in Sragdhara metre. In addition, he has produced distinct volumes of fresh, in-depth commentary for each of the five chapters of the original Sanskrit text. The first volume was published in 2022. This second volume delves into the understanding of the inner Kälacakra. The internal mechanisms of winds, subtle veins and cakras have been explored with clarity. In Indic tradition, hatha-yoga has been propounded for the first time in this section of the Kalacakra Tantra. Likewise, it contains the first Indian critique of the tenets of Islamic philosophy. This volume also examines several methods to calibrate the biomechanics of prăņa-vayu to defer the impending death.

About the Book Niraj Kumar (b. 22 April 1973) is a prolific writer across different disciplines. His previous series on Asian Integration, Arise Asia: Respond to White Peril (2003) and its sequel, Asia in Post-Western Age (2014), were well received by the Asian strategic community. In 1992, he was initiated by Swami Ranganathananda-ji Maharaj of the Ramakrishna Mission and has since been steadfastly pursuing the mantra, "Jiva is Śiva". An exponent of Hindu and Buddhist Tantras, his research interest spans science, spirituality and strategy. He is a career civil servant and currently serves as Joint Secretary to the Government of India.

Foreword In the Republic of Buryatia and Kalmykia, the Lama Agwan Lobsan Dorzhiev (d.1938) disseminated the idea of the Buddhist Pure Land of Shambhala located in Northern Russia. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876-1933) was impressed by Lama Dorzhiev's visions and sent him as emissary to the court of Tsar Nicolas 11. Lama Dorzhiev was instrumental in founding a Kälacakra Temple in Saint Petersburg. Indeed, this was the first Tibetan Buddhist temple in Europe that has been active since 1915. The datsan became a sacred centre for the monks from the republics of Buryatia, Kalmykia and Tuva. The followers hoped that the highest Kälacakra empowerment would be given to the deserving disciples in the future. Though, the Kalacakra Temple was no longer in use after the Soviet revolution, in the year 1929, Lama Dorzhiev sponsored and consecrated a Kalacakra Suburgan in the Aga Datsan. Around this time, the great XII Bandito Khambo-Lama Dashi Dorji Itigelov (1852-1927) entered into parinirvana while engaged in meditation on 15 June 1927. Lama Itigelov's imperishable body is now kept in the Ivolga Datsan and a prime example of the accomplishment of the Vajra-deha enunciated in the Kalacakra Tantra. The Kalacakra Tantra is the sweetest fruit of the famed Nalanda tradition. I am delighted to go through the commentary over the Sanskrit verses of this king of Tantras by Shri Niraj Kumar. Incidentally, he hails from Magadha and is engaged with this grand project of decoding, translating and writing a new commentary for the last decade.

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