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Kalachakra is the name both of a Buddhist tantric text and of the central deity whose practice is described therein. The Kalachakra tantra is unique among other Buddhist tantras in that initiation into the Kalachakra is routinely given to large groups, rather than to small groups of practitioners as is more often the case with other tanras. The name 'Kalachakra' means 'wheel of time'. This can be taken to refer both to the cycles of time in the cosmos (the movement of planets, the movement of the season) as well as the movement of so-called 'vital energies' in the body.