"For several decades, masters from all four lineages of Tibetan Buddhism have been conferring the Kalachakra initiation in India, Mongolia, Southeast Asia and the West.

Thousands of people from Buddhist and non-Buddhist cultures alike have either received the empowerment as active participants or attended as interested observers. Requests for future Kalachakra initiations from around the world are ever-increasing. The interest is great."

The Kalachakra tantra is said to be the most advanced practices in Tibetan Buddhism. This text which is said to have come from the Kingdom of Shambhala in about 1000 AD is vast and covers not only an elaborate Buddhist practice, but also contains the making of a calendar, an elaborate astrological system, and a mandala of 720 deities.

This introduction gives a summary of the Kalachakra for ordinary practitioners to understand.