NEW 2026 – Coemergent Kalachakra Sadhanas & Six Branches of Yoga Completion Stage

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153 Pages
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Kalachakra means the “Wheel of Time.” Its teachings describe three interrelated dimensions. The outer wheel of time encompasses the universe, the cycles of the cosmos, and the movements of the elements. The inner wheel concerns the bodies, minds, energies, and experiences of sentient beings. The other wheel of time is the path itself. It reveals how the processes of the outer and inner worlds can be transformed into an extraordinary means of liberation from ignorance and afflictive emotions.

This new 153 page collection brings together essential practices from both the generation and completion stages of coemergent Kalachakra. It is a greatly expanded successor to the 48 page edition published in 2015. While retaining some material from that earlier publication, the present collection incorporates extensive revisions, expanded translations, and previously untranslated coemergent Kalachakra practices.

The collection opens with a history of Kalachakra and its transmission. According to this lineage history, Buddha Shakyamuni manifested in the enlightened form of Kalachakra and taught the tantra to Suchandra, the dharma king of Shambhala. The teachings were preserved in Shambhala through successive generations. Manjushrikirti composed the Condensed Tantra from the extensive root tantra, and his son Pundarika elucidated its meaning in the Great Commentary.

The tradition was later transmitted to India through Chilu Pandita and the great Kalachakrapada Manjuvajra. Among its important Indian lineage holders were Naropa, Kashmiri Somanatha, and Rahula Shribhadra. Their teachings entered Tibet through numerous streams of transmission. The traditions associated with Rahula Shribhadra and Somanatha became especially important for the generation stage practices of coemergent Kalachakra and the completion stage Six Branches of Yoga.

These teachings were later brought into the Drigung Kagyü and transmitted through Drigung Rigdzin Chökyi Dragpa, who lived from 1595 to 1659 and later became known as the first Chungtsang Rinpoche. A master of both the old and new translation traditions of Tibet, Chökyi Dragpa distilled the essential meaning of the sutras, tantras, and lineage pith instructions into texts intended for actual meditation and ritual practice.

Following the history are two coemergent Kalachakra generation stage sadhanas.

The first, Source of the Two Benefits, is a coemergent Kalachakra sadhana practice composed by Rigdzin Chökyi Dragpa and arranged by the second Drigung Chungtsang, Könchog Trinle Döndrub Chögyal. Its concentrated structure presents the essential elements of the generation stage in a practical form for recitation and meditation.

The second and more extensive practice is Bindu of Non-Duality’s Display: Sadhana and Mandala of the Coemergent Kalachakra According to Rahula Shribhadra’s Tradition. This text consists primarily of practice materials composed by Rigdzin Chökyi Dragpa. Lho Bongtrül Tendzin Nyima gathered and arranged these materials into a continuous sequence suitable for recited practice. In doing so, he brought together materials that had existed in separate and complex ritual texts, preserving the lineage while making the complete order of practice easier to follow without omissions or additions.

Bindu of Non-Duality’s Display includes the sadhana, mandala, and the complete empowerment rituals of the coemergent Kalachakra. Through deity yoga, mandala visualization, empowerment, offerings, praises, mantra recitation, and the gathering of the accumulations, the practitioner trains in the vivid appearance of Kalachakra and the mandala while recognizing their empty nature. Ordinary identity and perception are transformed into the enlightened body, speech, mind, qualities, and activities of Kalachakra. These generation stage methods prepare the practitioner to engage the subtle body and visionary practices of the completion stage.

The collection concludes with the non-dual Kalachakra completion stage according to the tradition of Kashmiri Somanatha. Known as the Six Branches of Yoga, this system does not approach the ultimate nature of mind only through conceptual analysis. It uses the inseparability of mind, subtle energy, and visionary appearance as a direct path to realization.

An essential feature of the Six Branches of Yoga is the cultivation of empty form visions. Practicing under conditions of both light and darkness, we begin to perceive appearances that do not arise from ordinary external objects. Among these are five-colored luminous bindus, rays, forms, and visionary displays. As meditative stability deepens, these appearances unfold progressively and become the experiential basis for the later branches of practice.

The visionary yogas are integrated with tummo fire and with the gathering, control, and stabilization of the subtle winds and other powerful energies of the body. Through breath control, retention, recollection, and meditative absorption, the normally dispersed energies of body and mind are brought into the central channel. The subtle body itself becomes a direct vehicle for realizing the ultimate nature of mind.

The collection contains four translations:

1. Kalachakra History, from Lho Bongtrül Tendzin Nyima’s empowerment ritual for the Four Unsurpassed Coemergent Practices.
2. Source of the Two Benefits: Coemergent Kalachakra Sadhana, composed by Rigdzin Chökyi Dragpa and arranged by the Second Drigung Chungtsang.
3. Bindu of Non-Duality’s Display, composed primarily from Rigdzin Chökyi Dragpa’s practice materials and arranged for continuous recitation by Lho Bongtrül Tendzin Nyima.

4. Six Branches of Yoga Non-Dual Kalachakra Completion Stage According to the Tradition of Kashmiri Somanatha, Rigdzin Chökyi Dragpa’s presentation of the Non-Dual Kalachakra completion stage according to Kashmiri Somanatha’s tradition.

The original Tibetan is presented alongside the English translations, with transliterations included in the sadhanas. This is a specialized vajrayana practice collection intended for qualified practitioners.