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Word: kalachakra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there last week, thanks to a visit by the Dalai Lama, 46, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Some 1,500 pilgrims arrived in a caravan of black-and-yellow school buses at the town's 13-acre Deer Park Buddhist Center. The occasion: the spectacular Kalachakra, the wheel-of-time ceremony that all but guarantees participants nirvana. Never before performed in the West, the Kalachakra has been given only six other times by the present Dalai Lama. At the end of three days of praying, the Dalai Lama delivered a sermon on the never-ending-ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jul. 27, 1981 | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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