Embodied Experience of the Inner and Outer Universes

The Buddhist cosmological view expressed in the texts and practices of the Kalachakra Tantra, known as the Wheel of Time, explains and integrates observed relationships between the human body and mind with the external universe while foregrounding human experience. It combines a fundamental Buddhist concept—that all of existence is impermanent and has the nature of time—with another essential notion: that the same particles comprising the elements of earth, fire, water, air, space, and awareness make up both the human body and mind and the cosmos. 

Developed in the eleventh century as the latest comprehensive system of tantric theory and practice, Kalachakra describes the association between the internal and external Kalachakra as cycles of time. As presented in Tibetan Kalachakra traditions, the astrological and medical knowledge of how celestial bodies correlate with the body and mind may help facilitate the advancement of human potential and well-being.