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The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual

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This is a very good book on the second chapter of the Kalacakratantra and its commentary, the Vimalaprabha. This is the chapter that concerns individual practice, but it also treats the general topics one wants to read about in the Kalacakra overall. One of the good things Wallace does is describe some of the major sources and allusions. For example, she tracks the places in the Manjushri Namasamgiti which influence the tantra or are quoted in it and the Hindu sources for the K. Her speculations are clear and well-grounded.

Wallace has an equally excellent companion volume, a translation of this chapter and its commentary: _The Kalacakratantra: The Chapter On The Individual Together With The Vimalaprabha._ In the works is a third volume which will be, if I understand correctly, a translation of a sadhana drawn from the tantra.

My interest in this tantra is both scholarly as an academic and personal as a practitioner. From both points of view Wallace's work is, it seems to me, as good as it gets.

This work by Vesna Wallace is cerainly one of the most comprehensive packages of information on the Kalachakra in book form available today in English. In combination with 'Ornament to Stainless Light', it becomes a virtual Kalachakra encyclopedia for students and serious practitioners of the Kalachakra.

This is a fine volume. Unfortunately, the list price has been steadily increasing over the last few weeks - it used to cost $45 until recently. At this rate it will hit four figures by the end of the year.

This book is the result of a research so extensive that more than justifies the price.
Vesna Wallace gives us a detailed work of such depth that every serious practitioner would welcome with open arms as one of the top works on the subject.
I bought both of her volumes , this one , and the companion "The Kalacakra Tantra the Chapter on Sadhana together with the Vimalaprabha Commentary".

While neither is "easy" reading, its a delight for those REALLY Interested on the subject

Thank you Professor Wallace!