Summary
s.1The Summary of Empowerment is considered to be the only extant portion of the root text of the Kālacakratantra. According to the Buddhist tantric tradition, the Sekkodeśa was transmitted by the Buddha in his emanation as Kālacakra, to Sucandra, the first king of Śambhala. The text’s 174 verses cover a wide range of topics. After a short introduction to the eleven empowerments that constitute a gradual purification of the aggregates, body, speech, mind, and wisdom, the treatise turns to the so-called “sixfold yoga.” It begins by teaching meditation on emptiness via the contemplation of various signs, such as smoke or fireflies. Following the description of the control of winds and drops within the body’s channels and cakras, along with the signs of death and methods of cheating death, the text goes on to describe the three mudrās— karmamudrā , jñānamudrā , and mahāmudrā . After a concise criticism of cause and effect, the text concludes by describing six kinds of supernatural beings closely related to the Kālacakratantra, along with their respective families.
s.1《灌頂概要》被認為是時輪密續根本典籍現存唯一的部分。根據佛教密續傳統，《密集明點疏》由佛陀以時輪的化身形式傳給香巴拉的首位大王月賢。這部文獻共有174首頌文，涵蓋廣泛的主題。在對構成蘊、身、語、意、智慧逐步淨化的十一灌頂做簡短介紹之後，論著轉向所謂的「六瑜伽」。它首先教導透過觀想各種徵象（如煙或螢火蟲）來修習空性。在描述了對身體脈道和輪內風和明點的控制，以及死亡的徵象和欺騙死亡的方法之後，文獻繼續描述三種手印——業手印、智慧手印和大手印。在簡潔地批評因果關係之後，文獻最後通過描述六種與時輪密續密切相關的超越世間存在，以及它們各自的族系而結束。