Kalachakra: The Time Machine Buddha
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Kalachakra is a Sanskrit term that means “time wheel” and refers both to a Tantric deity and to the philosophies and meditation practices contained within the Kalachakra Tantra, and its many commentaries.
Buddhist Scholar Robert Thurman, during an interview with Sputnik Observatory, states:
“The world appearance of The Maitreya prophecy in Buddhism is that probably hundreds of thousands of years after the Shakyamuni Buddha, another Buddha will come. I’m arguing that we have to have a turnaround much more quickly than the Buddha Maitreya would provide us, and I’m more therefore related to the Kalachakra, the time machine form of Buddhism, the Shambala prophecy, where it happens sooner. I think it it will happen in this century. It has to.”