Kalachakra means Time-Wheel, as "Kāla" is Sanskrit for Time and "Chakra” is Wheel in Sanskrit. It is also translated as Time-Cycles. Much in this tradition revolves around the concept of time and cycles: from the cycles of the planets, to the cycles of our breath and the practice of controlling the subtlest energies within one's body on the path to enlightenment. The Kalachakra deity represents omniscience, as everything is under the influence of time, he is time and therefore knows all. Similarly, the wheel is beginning less and endless. Recorded in Tibetan and Cantonese.