Kalachakra New Year

Kālachakra (Sanskrit: कालचक्र ) is a bahuvrihi term used in Tantric
Buddhism that means "time-wheel" or "time-cycles". It refers both to a
Tantric deity (Tib. yidam) of Vajrayana Buddhism and to the
philosophies and meditation practices contained within the Kalachakra
Tantra and its many commentaries. The Kalachakra Tantra is more
properly called the Kalachakra Laghutantra, and is said to be an
abridged form of an original text, the Kalachakra Mulatantra which is
no longer extant. Some Buddhist masters assert that Kalachakra is the
most advanced form of Vajrayana practice; it certainly is one of the
most complex systems within tantric Buddhism.
The Kalachakra tradition revolves around the concept of time
(kāla) and cycles (chakra): from the cycles of the planets, to the
cycles of human breathing, it teaches the practice of working with the
most subtle energies within one's body on the path to enlightenment.
The Kalachakra deity represents a Buddha and thus omniscience. Since
Kalachakra is time and everything is under the influence of time,
Kalachakra knows all. Whereas Kalachakri or Kalichakra, his spiritual
consort and complement, is aware of everything that is timeless,
untimebound or out of the realm of time. In Yab-yum, they are
temporality and atemporality conjoined. Similarly, the wheel is without
beginning or end.

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