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The Kalacakra Tantra was the last major Tantric text written in India before the decline of Buddhism. Over the course of its thousand-year journey, the book has left an indelible influence over different regions of Asia. Apart from the Vimalaprabha commentary composed during the mid-eleventh century, no verse-by-verse commentary is available to the general public. Kumar has translated the entire 1,047 stanzas of the text written in Sragdhara metre. In addition, he has produced distinct volumes of fresh, in-depth commentary for each of the five chapters of the original Sanskrit text. The first volume was published in 2022.
This second volume delves into the understanding of the inner Kalachakra. The internal mechanisms of winds, subtle veins and cakras have been explored with clarity. In Indic tradition, hatha-yoga has been propounded for the first time in this section of the Kalacakra Tantra. Likewise, it contains the first Indian critique of the tenets of Islamic philosophy. This volume also examines several methods to calibrate the biomechanics of prana-vayu to defer the impending death.
Kalacakra Tantra: Translation, Annotation and Commentary (Volume 2), Niraj Kumar, DK Printworld, Hardcover, 2025, 350 Pages, $60.00
Niraj Kumar(1973- ) is the author of classic work on Asian Integration, "Arise, Asia! Respond to White Peril"(January,2003). The sequel "Asia in Post-Western Age" has been published in 2014. He is an initiate in Ramakrishna Mission Order and disciple of Swami Ranganathanadaji Maharaj. He is intimately involved with the Himalayas, Buddhism and Tantra. His forthcoming work is 5 volume pentalogy on translation and commentary of the Kalacakra Tantra. The first volume, Kalacakra Tantra: Translation, Annotation and Commentary (DK PrintWorld & Mody Univ of Science & Tech New Delhi:2022) has been published. It is first verse by verse commentary on the complex text written after a gap of millennium. Books: Arise, Asia! Respond to White Peril (2003), Autopsy of Revolution (Poetry,2006), I Have No Voice (Poetry,2013), Sri Yantra and Geophilosophy of India (2014), Asia in Post-Western Age (2014), Rainbow of Indian Civilization (2015), Tagore's Refuge Unto Buddha (co-ed. Lama Chosphel Zotpa, S.N. Mishra , 2014), Himalayan Bridge (co-editors George van Driem, P. Stobdan, 2016), Rekindling Pan-Asian Spirit Through Rebuilding Nalanda (2017)].The Kalacakra Tantra, Vol. I
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