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Vimalaprabhā is a Sanskrit word that means "The Radiance of Purity", or "Drimé Ö" (Tibetan: དྲི་མེད་འོད།, Wylie: dri med ‘od).[1] This 11th-century Tibetan Buddhist text is a commentary to the Kālacakra Tantra. The Vimalaprabhā is attributed to Shambhala King Pundarika (Tibetan: Pad ma dkar po).[2] It is composed in Sanskrit and consists of 12,000 lines of text.[3] Manuscripts of the work have survived in the libraries of Tibetan monasteries and Indian libraries.[4]
The Vimalaprabhā commentary, together with the Laghutantra, form the basis of the Kālacakra practice as it is currently known and practiced in Tibetan Buddhism, as part of the Vajrayana practices. It is one of the three major commentaries on Kālacakra system, along with Hevajrapindarthatika and Laksabhidhana duddhrta laghutantra pindartha vivarana nama.[5]
- ^ John Powers; David Templeman (2012). Historical Dictionary of Tibet. Scarecrow. pp. 228–229. ISBN 978-0-8108-7984-3.
- ^ Vesna Wallace (2001). The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual. Oxford University Press. pp. v, 1–8. ISBN 978-0-19-802848-2.
- ^ Edward A. Arnold (2009). As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H.H. the Dalai Lama. Shambhala. pp. 205–206. ISBN 978-1-55939-910-4.
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newman56was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ John Newman; et al. (1985). Geshe Lhundub Sopa (ed.). The Wheel of Time: The Kalachakra in Context. Shambhala. p. 73. ISBN 978-15593-97-797.