Contents
Foreword – Robert A.F. Thurman
1. A Concert of Names of Mañjuśrī: Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti
Alexander Berzin
Giacomella Orofino
3. The Sekoddeśaṭippaṇī: A Brief Commentary on the Summary of the Initiation
Phillip Lecso
Francesco Sferra
5. “Like a Buddha Jewel-Casket Thrown Open”: Gendun Gyatso’s Nāmasaṃgīti Commentary
Laura Harrington
Gavin Kilty
7. Palden Lhamo: Supreme Guardian Goddess of the Dalai Lamas
Miranda Shaw
8. Oṃ Vākyeda Namaḥ: Mañjuśrī’s Mantra and Its Uses
Glenn Wallis
9. The Body as a Text and the Text as the Body: A View from the Kālacakratantra’s Perspective
Vesna A. Wallace
10. The Influence of the Kālacakra: Vajrapāṇi on Consort Meditation
David B. Gray
11. The Concept of Ādibuddha in the Kālacakratantra
Urban Hammar
12. A Lineage History of Vajrayoga and Tantric Zhentong from the Jonang Kālacakra Practice Tradition
Michael R. Sheehy
13. The Six Vajra-Yogas of Kālacakra
Edward Henning
14. Compassionate Aspirations and Their Fulfillment: Dol-po-pa’s A Prayer for Birth in Sukhāvatī
Georgios T. Halkias
15. Medicine and Astrology in the Healing Arts of the Kālacakratantra
Vesna A. Wallace
16. Sanskrit Mantras in the Kālachakra Sādhana
David Reigle
17. Rendawa and the Question of Kālacakra’s Uniqueness
Thupten Jinpa
III. Transmission and Transition
18. Kālacakra and the Nālandā Tradition: Science, Religion, and Objectivity in Buddhism and the West
Joseph Loizzo
19. Demon Diseases and Tibetan Medicine: The Interface between Religion and Science
Ivette Vargas
20. Integrating Modern Neuroscience and Physiology with Indo-Tibetan Yogic Science
William C. Bushell
21. Vibrating in Splendor, the Source Experience of Kālacakra’s Maṇḍala
Sofia Stril-Rever
22. The Kālacakra Empowerment as Conducted by Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
23. Dissolution and Emptiness Meditation in the Kālacakra Six-Session Guru Yoga Sādhana
Geshe Drakpa Gelek
24. Essence of the Kālacakra Six-Session Guru Yoga Practice
Jhado Rinpoche