Vimalaprabha

Vimalaprabhā is a Sanskrit word that means "The Radiance of Purity", or 'Dri-med ‘od' in Tibetan.[1] This 11th-century Tibetan Buddhist text is a commentary to the Kālacakra Tantra. The Vimalaprabhā is attributed to Shambhala King Pundarika (Tibetan: Pad ma dkar po).[2] It is composed in Sanskrit and consists of 12,000 lines of text.[3] Manuscripts of the work have survived in the libraries of Tibetan monasteries and Indian libraries.[4]

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The Vimalaprabhā commentary, together with the Laghutantra, form the basis of the Kālacakra practice as it is currently known and practiced in Tibetan Buddhism, as part of the Vajrayana practices. It is one of the three major commentaries on Kālacakra system, along with Hevajrapindarthatika and Laksabhidhana duddhrta laghutantra pindartha vivarana nama.[5]

References
  1. John Powers; David Templeman (2012). Historical Dictionary of Tibet. Scarecrow. pp. 228–229. ISBN 978-0-8108-7984-3.
  2. Vesna Wallace (2001). The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual. Oxford University Press. pp. v, 1–8. ISBN 978-0-19-802848-2.
  3. Edward A. Arnold (2009). As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama. Shambhala. pp. 205–206. ISBN 978-1-55939-910-4.
  4. John Newman (1985). Geshe Lhundub Sopa; et al. (eds.). The Wheel of Time: The Kalachakra in Context. Shambhala. pp. 56–79, 85–87. ISBN 978-15593-97-797.
  5. John Newman; et al. (1985). Geshe Lhundub Sopa (ed.). The Wheel of Time: The Kalachakra in Context. Shambhala. p. 73. ISBN 978-15593-97-797.
  6. Vesna Wallace (2001). The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual. Oxford University Press. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-0-19-802848-2.
  7. Johan Elverskog (2011). Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 102–103. ISBN 0-8122-0531-6. The Muslim believe that the Buddhist doctrine that a living being experiences previously created karmas in this life, and the karma created in this life in another life is false. (...) The barbarian Muslims believe that a dead man experiences happiness and suffering in heaven or hell with that human body in accordance with ar-Rahman's law. Thus, the rejection of other lives is [their] precept.
  8. Edward A. Arnold (2009). As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama. Shambhala. pp. 201–208. ISBN 978-1-55939-910-4.
  9. James Mallinson (2015). Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen (ed.). Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism: History, Practice and Doctrine. Routledge. pp. 125 note 10. ISBN 978-1-317-58522-0.;
    James Mallinson (2012), Saktism and Hathayoga, Yoga Vidya, pages 2-3 with footnotes 7-8

Further reading
  • Kilty, G. Ornament of Stainless Light, Wisdom 2004, ISBN 0-86171-452-0
  • Berzin, A. Taking the Kālacakra Initiation, Snowlion 1997, ISBN 1-55939-084-0 (available in German, French, Italian, Russian)
  • Wallace, V.A. The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual Oxford University Press, 2001
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