CYBERSPACE, BLESSINGS AND KALACHAKRA?
(From: http://www.lightlink.com/namgyal/blessing.html) “We turned to the monks of Namgyal Monastery, the personal monastery of the Dalai Lama, to discuss whether the blessing of cyberspace would be possible. They enthusiastically responded, noting that one tantric system in particular, the Kalachakra Tantra, believed to have been first taught by the Buddha, would be highly appropriate as a blessing vehicle because it especially emphasizes space, itself (along with consciousness), as one of the six constituent elements of the universe, in addition to the more familiar elements of earth, air, fire and water. Coincidentally, the Kalachakra is also the most widely disseminated of the Tibetan Buddhist tantric systems, often being offered to over 100,000 people at a time when it is presented by the Dalai Lama in South Asia. In the monks’ view, cyberspace resembles space in general, which Tibetan Buddhists characterize more as the absence of obstructions than as a distance between two points.
