時輪金剛

尊貴達賴喇嘛尊者

 日期:2014/06/29 NPO  喇嘛網 編輯部 報導

The word kalachakra means cycles of time, and the Kalachakra system presents three such cycles – external, internal and alternative. The external and internal cycles deal with time as we normally know it, while the alternative cycles are practices for gaining liberation from these two.

The structures of the external and internal cycles are analogous, similar to the parallel between macrocosm and microcosm discussed in Western philosophy. This means that the same laws that govern a universe also pertain to atoms, the body and our experience of life.

The practices of the alternative cycles also follow this structure so as to allow us to engage with and surmount these forces in an efficient manner. Such mimicking is, in fact, one of the distinguishing features of the anuttarayoga tantra method.

Time, in Buddhism, is defined as a measurement of change. For example, a month is the measurement of change involved either externally in the moon circling the earth or internally in a woman going from one menstruation to the next. Such changes are cyclical in that the pattern repeats, although the events of each cycle are not completely identical. Externally, the universe passes through cosmic, astronomical, astrological and historical cycles.

On an internal level, the body goes through physiological cycles, many of which bring about associated mental and emotional cycles as well. Furthermore, just as universes form, expand, contract, disappear and then form once again, individual beings pass through continuing rebirths with repeated conception, growth, old age and death.

Normally the passage of time exercises a debilitating effect. As we age, our sight, hearing, memory and physical strength gradually weaken and eventually we die. Due to compulsive attachment and confusion about who we are and how we exist, we take rebirth without any control over its process or circumstances, each time having to relearn everything we knew before. As each of our lives unfolds over the course of time, karmic potentials from our previous actions ripen at appropriate astrological, historical and life-cycle moments into the various events we experience. Some of these are pleasant, but many are not. We seem to have little choice about what happens in life.

In short, the external and internal cycles of time delineate samsara – uncontrollably recurring rebirth, fraught with problems and difficulties. These cycles are driven by impulses of energy, known in the Kalachakra system as “winds of karma.” Karma is a force intimately connected with mind and arises due to confusion about reality. Imagining that ourselves, others and everything around us exist in the way our mind makes them appear – as if with concrete, permanent identities established from within each being or thing – we act on the basis of this confusion with attachment, anger or stubborn foolishness. Click here for more details..

Overview of the Initiation

The initiation process spans several days, with the first day being a preparation ceremony, followed by usually two or three days of actual empowerment.

The most important part of the initial procedures is taking refuge and the bodhisattva and tantric vows. Without all three, we cannot actually receive empowerment, although we may witness it and derive great benefit.

The empowerment itself involves a complex procedure of imagining ourselves transforming into a series of special forms, entering the mandala of the Buddha-figure Kalachakra, and experiencing in it a sequence of purifications and the awakening and enhancing of potentials for future success in the practice.

The mandala is an enormous multistoried palace, in and around which are 722 figures, including a principal couple in the center. The master conferring the empowerment simultaneously appears as all these figures, not just as the central one. Thus, throughout the process we visualize ourselves, our teacher and our surroundings in a very special way.

The steps of the initiation are extremely intricate and, without familiarity, the visualizations involved can be quite perplexing. But if, as a proper vessel, we take the vows with full sincerity and at least feel, with strong faith, that all the visualizations are actually occurring, we can be confident that we are receiving the empowerment.

With this basis secured, the next step is seeking further instruction and then trying, as sincerely as possible, to travel the full path to enlightenment as presented in the Kalachakra Tantra.

 日期:2014/06/29 00:42:13   喇嘛網 編輯部 報導

第33次時輪金剛灌頂大法會
印度北部查謨－克什米爾邦的拉達克列城（Leh）
7月3日～7月13日

3／4／5日：達賴喇嘛主持時輪金剛前行修法、淨化場地等儀式（包括誦經、製作砂壇城和其它儀軌）

6／7／8日：達賴喇嘛尊者將給予時輪金剛前行佛法講授。 講解龍樹菩薩的「親友書」

9日：勝寺僧眾以金剛舞儀式，舉行安置場地儀式。

10／11／12日：達賴喇嘛尊者將傳授時輪金剛灌頂。

13日：僧俗二眾弟子為達賴喇嘛尊者舉行祈願長壽法會。

主辦單位：拉達克佛教總會／拉達克寺院聯盟／西藏貢波同鄉會／西藏覺囊教派總會

拉達克（藏文：ལ་དྭགས་，威利：la dwags，拉達克話國際音標：[lad̪ɑks]]）是世界上最崎嶇、最荒蕪的山地之一。海拔在3000-7000米之間，大部分是人煙稀少的高地。位於克什米爾的東南部，通行語言為藏語、拉達克話和烏爾都語。

拉達克為崑崙大高原之西部，境內高山連綿聳峙，北部為世界屋脊帕米爾高原，東北部有亞洲最大的喀喇崑崙山脈、岡底斯山脈和喜馬拉雅山脈橫列境內，中部屬喜馬拉雅山脈西段，南部為查謨丘陵。大部分地區多在海拔4,000公尺的高地上，平曠之地方亦高達2,000餘公尺，四圍則為高逾6,000公尺的雪峰，地勢高亢，山川秀麗而有灌溉之利。

列城是拉達克歷代王朝的王都，現在拉達克地區最重要的城市。

拉達克時輪金剛法會詳情： http://ladakhkalachakra2014.com

	主持人	達賴喇嘛尊者

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