oO Ee, ee Se ee ee eae 
Buddha), knows 
_ hkhor-lo, in Tibetan*). 
No. III, Note on the Origin of the Kéla-Chakra and 
Adi-Buddha Systems, 
[J.A.S.B., Vol. Il, p. 57 (1833).] 
The peculiar religious system entitled the Kdla-Chakra is 
stated, generally, to have been derived from Shambhala, as it is 
called in Sanscrit, (in Tibetan ** bdé-hbyung,’” vulgé ** de- 
jung,’ signifying “‘ origin or source of happiness’’), a fabulous 
country in the north, the capital of which was Cdlapa, a very 
splendid city, the residence of many illustrious kings of Sham- 
bhala, situated between about 45° and 50° north latitude, beyond 
the Sita or Jaxartes, where the increase of the days from the 
vernal equinox till the summer solstice amounted to 12 Indian 
last half of the tenth century. after Christ, and afterwards, vid 
Cashmir, it grin its way into Tibet; where, in the fourteenth, 
fifteenth, and s nth centuries, several learn men, whose 
works are still pas in that country, published researches and 
commentaries on the Kdla-Chakra system ; among these authors 
the most celebrated are PuToN, or Bu-stom, Kuetup, or m 
GRUB and PapMA CaRpo, who lived respectively in the three 
centuries ee Peake ed. 
ARPO (on the 68th leaf of his e Origin of (the 
ce hy’ n 
sj 
consisting of 189 leaves,) thus describes the introduction of the 
Kdla-Chakra into, or at, Nalanda (or Nalendra, a large religious 
establishment in Central India), and the doctrine which it con- 
tained : 
‘* He (a certain pandit called Tstmxu or CuiLu) then came 
to Nalanda in Central India, (S. Madhyam, &ib. dvus, or vulgd 
). Having designed over the door of the Bihar the ten guardians 
(of the world), he bine eg them thus 
‘He, that does not know the chief first Buddha, (Adi- 
not the. circle of time. (Kdla-Chakra, dus-kyi 
The Kdla-Chakra and ‘Adi-Buddha systems are © probably the same 
with "Eat of the Samanians in the north, in Transoxan and beyond the 
‘ it been described by M. i . toire 
Générale des Huns,’’ PGR 9 Hg 53 ete. Reon criticised by M 
I 
have found in the Tibetan volumes.— Besides the mystical theology and 
philosophy, there are in the Kdla-Chakra system several works on astro- 
nomy, astrology, and sf pga stories on the rise, progress, and decline 
