The Kālacakratantra: The Chapter on the Individual Together with the Vimalaprabha

By: Vesna A. Wallace

This is the first complete English translation of the second chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratantra text, and its eleventh-century commentary, the Stainless Light (Vimalaprabha) , often accorded pride of place as the first volume of the Tibetan Tanjur. This chapter elaborates the human "individual" in terms of the cosmic human who embodies the cosmos within, showing the homology of macrocosm and microcosm, the outer and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975373412
• ISBN13: 9780975373415
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: American Institute of Buddhist Studies
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher