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The '''Kālachakra Tantra''' is a 9<sup>th</sup> century Tibetan Buddhist text that contains passages which discuss the religion of [[Islam]] in a negative manner and refer to a man named Madhumati (i.e. Prophet [[Muhammad]]) who would be a "false impostor, wreaking havoc" on the Buddhist world.<ref>H. Hoffman, "Kalacakra Studies. I. Manichaeism, Islam, and Christianity in the Kalacakra Tantra", Central Asiatic Journal, 13, 1969, pp. 52-73.</ref><ref name="David Scott">David Scott, "[http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3270172?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101205016087 Buddhism and Islam: Past to Present Encounters and Interfaith Lessons]", Numen, Vol. 42, No. 2, (May, 1995), pp. 141-155</ref> | The '''Kālachakra Tantra''' is a 9<sup>th</sup> century Tibetan Buddhist text that contains passages which discuss the religion of [[Islam]] in a negative manner and refer to a man named Madhumati (i.e. the Prophet [[Muhammad]]) who would be a "false impostor, wreaking havoc" on the Buddhist world.<ref>H. Hoffman, "Kalacakra Studies. I. Manichaeism, Islam, and Christianity in the Kalacakra Tantra", Central Asiatic Journal, 13, 1969, pp. 52-73.</ref><ref name="David Scott">David Scott, "[http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3270172?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101205016087 Buddhism and Islam: Past to Present Encounters and Interfaith Lessons]", Numen, Vol. 42, No. 2, (May, 1995), pp. 141-155</ref> | ||
Like the Hindu [[Bhavishya Purana]], it describes Muslims as invading "barbarians" (Skt. ''mleccha'', from two words "Malina" meaning lowly, dirty, filthy, impure, wretched, unchaste, unclean, admixed, adulterated, contaminated, corrupt, immoral, decadent, infected, obscene, tainted and "CCha/CCheetkara" meaning abhorrence, loathing, disgust, abomination, repugnance)<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mleccha|2=2012-09-08}} Mleccha] - Wikipedia, accessed September 8, 2012</ref> and contains the prophecy of a holy war between the followers of Islam and Buddhism. | Like the Hindu [[Bhavishya Purana]], it describes Muslims as invading "barbarians" (Skt. ''mleccha'', from two words "Malina" meaning lowly, dirty, filthy, impure, wretched, unchaste, unclean, admixed, adulterated, contaminated, corrupt, immoral, decadent, infected, obscene, tainted and "CCha/CCheetkara" meaning abhorrence, loathing, disgust, abomination, repugnance)<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mleccha|2=2012-09-08}} Mleccha] - Wikipedia, accessed September 8, 2012</ref> and contains the prophecy of a holy war between the followers of Islam and Buddhism. | ||
It refers to Islam as "mleccha-dharma", the barbarian religion, | It refers to Islam as "mleccha-dharma", the barbarian religion, descri-bing it as a religion of violence ("himsa-dharma") that advocates savage behavior ("raudra-karman"), and characterizes [[Allah]] as a barbarian god, who is a merciless deity of death ("mara-devata"), a god of darkness comparable to Rahu, the demon who devours the sun and the moon.<ref name="John Newman">John Newman, "[{{Reference archive|1=http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/jiabs/article/download/8878/2785|2=2012-09-08}} Islam in the Kālacakra Tantra]", Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1998</ref> | ||
One passage of the Kalachakra states that the powerful, merciless idol of the barbarians, the demonic incarnation (i.e. Muhammad) lives in Mecca.<ref>Shri Kalachakra I. 154</ref> Another reads, "The Chakravartin (i.e. universal ruler) shall come out at the end of the age, from the city the gods fashioned on Mount Kailasa. He shall smite the barbarians in battle with his own four-division army, on the entire surface of the earth."<ref>Shri Kalachakra I. 161</ref> | One passage of the Kalachakra states that the powerful, merciless idol of the barbarians, the demonic incarnation (i.e. Muhammad) lives in Mecca.<ref>Shri Kalachakra I. 154</ref> Another reads, "The Chakravartin (i.e. universal ruler) shall come out at the end of the age, from the city the gods fashioned on Mount Kailasa. He shall smite the barbarians in battle with his own four-division army, on the entire surface of the earth."<ref>Shri Kalachakra I. 161</ref> | ||