The English Wikipedia article on the Tibetan calendar, a lunisolar calendar that reckons years in sixty year cycles, Rabjung, drawn from the Kalachakra tantra's own astronomical system; used here for the calendar's sixty year cycle count and its start date.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_calendar
Source Typeencyclopedia
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A collaboratively edited encyclopedia entry, used here for the well documented mechanics of the Tibetan calendar's sixty year Rabjung count rather than for any contested doctrinal point. Sources
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