This manuscript page is a catalog record for the Kalachakra Tantra, a Buddhist tantra text held at the Oriental Institute Baroda. The record identifies the work as a Buddhist tantra with accession number 13268, written in Sanskrit using the Newari script. The Kalachakra Tantra is a major text in the Buddhist tantric tradition dealing with time cycles, cosmology, and spiritual practices.

Sanskrit

Kālacakratantra

This manuscript preserves a Sanskrit recension of the *Kālacakratantra*, a seminal text of Buddhist esotericism that integrates cosmology, astrology, and soteriology within a tantric framework. The opening verses present a distinctive invocation to the Kālacakra deity—characterized as omniscient, sun-bodied, and lotus-eyed—followed by Sucandra's propitiatory request for teachings on the wheel of time (*kālacakra*) as a means to liberation during the Kali Yuga. The text exhibits sophisticated numerological and spatial symbolism, delineating intricate correspondences between macrocosmic structures (mountains, oceans, continents) and the microcosm of the yogic body, including detailed measurements in *yojana*s and the mapping of celestial bodies onto anatomical sites. Notable features include the presence of red-ink interlinear corrections (e.g., śukrau), the use of Newari script, and the systematic exposition of the six-line (*ṣaḍaṅga*) yoga system, reflecting the tantra's unique synthesis of Indian astronomical sciences (*jyotiṣa*) with Mahāyāna Buddhist soteriology.

Opening of the Kālacakratantra with homage to the wheel of time

TantraJune 13, 2026

The Wheel of Time: A Buddhist Tantra for the Kali Age

The Kālacakratantra — the 'Wheel of Time' — promises liberation in the Kali age, mapping the universe onto the body in a system where time itself is the path.

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