>>2965235The article itself is somewhat critical of Kalachakra war prophecy. The impression I get is that the writer of the article was not aware of the true depravity of Islam. But here is an excerpt: "
This May I received the Kalachakra empowerment from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Toronto, along with about 5,000 other people. Nowadays, demonic forces seem to be afoot, fattening on human greed, ignorance and hatred, and it felt urgent to attend this event dedicated to world peace.
But Kalachakra was dauntingly complex, I knew. Though the initiation is offered to large crowds with-out requiring everyone to visualize the whites of 722 deities' eyes, I didn't want to sit there blankly, as though I were attending a seminar on toric topology. If it's true that Kalachakra brings on the utopian era called Shambhala, I wanted to take as full advantage as possible of whatever His Holiness was offering. If I didn't think Kalachakra truly made a difference, I shouldn't waste time by going.
So I invested a small fortune in books, hoping to plow the dry ground of my understanding in case a seed of possibility might fall there.
I was shocked, amidst the intricate teachings, to come across an apocalyptic prophecy. (It is discussed at length in Alexander Berzin's Taking the Kalachakra Initiation and Geshe Lhundrub Sopa, Roger Jackson and John Newman's The Wheel of Time: The Kalachakra in Context. What follows is culled from those sources.)
According to Kalachakra, our world situation will deteriorate steadily until a global war in 2424, a cataclysmic struggle of civilization against barbarian fanatics. The barbarians will have taken over all of India. Their holy city is Mecca, their mantra Vishvamila, from the Arabic Bismillah, in the name of Allah. In short, they're Muslims of some stripe. But what distinguishes a barbarian is not being Muslim per se. It is a belief in violence. Barbarians say, "There is no fault in one who would do ill to a vicious beast" (Wheel of Time, p. 60).
During the ensuing horrible war, a bodhisattva hero arises; his army eventually wins out on behalf of gentler religions. Some say he's from the north, around Turkestan; others that he's from a symbolic inner world. His forces consist of everything from battle-mad elephants to flying ships. Those who've taken the Kalachakra will be reborn among the good guys; an era of peace and wisdom ensues from their victory.
I struggled with all this. Unlike anything I'd come across in Buddhism, it sounded more like Nostradamus or Revelation. So far, I'd been comfortable with Buddhist descriptions of the universe, whose cyclic eons of degeneration, emptiness and remanifestation fit with current astronomical theories. But though the Kalachakra's war prophecy still falls within the vaster scheme, its timing is fairly immediate-and its destruction historical and human rather than cosmic and mechanical."