The Second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi
b.1204 - d.1283Name Variants: Chodzin; Chokyi Lama; Karma Pakśi; Karmapa 02 Karma Pakshi; Second Karmapa, Karma Pakshihttp://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm/674.htmlThe Second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi...
View ArticleThe Karmapa: 'Lack of compassion is the greatest killer'(The Telegraph)
By Mick Brown8:00AM BST 01 Jul 2014On his first ever visit to Europe, the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist figure after the Dalai Lama, the Karmapa, talks about being taken from his family in childhood,...
View ArticleTibetan Buddhism: what is reincarnation? (The Telegraph)
What does reincarnation - taking rebirth after death - mean under Buddhism?By Mick Brown8:00AM BST 01 Jul 2014The Karmapa, 26, is revered by Tibetan Buddhists as the 17th reincarnation of a 900-year...
View ArticleThe Gyalwang Karmapa Meets Sikyong Lobsang Sangay at the Kashag.
30th June 2014 – Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamsala.Today, at the invitation of Sikyong Lobsang Sangay, His Holiness visited the new Kashag building during a short visit to Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamsala.His...
View ArticleSikkim Asks GoI to Facilitate 17th Gyalwa Karmapa (NorthEast Today)
By NorthEastTodayBoth the treasury and opposition bench in the Sikkim assembly stood united as a resolution seeking Buddhist Guru Gyalwa Karmapa to Sikkim was adopted by the house, the last day of the...
View ArticleH.H. 16th Karmapa performed the name-burning ceremony for the King of Bhutan
From a story recounted by Eric Pema Kunsang about H.H. 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje:One night, the Karmapa called out for his body servant, who at that time was Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. The Karmapa...
View ArticleThe Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje
b.1284 - d.1339Name Variants: Karmapa 03 Rangjung Dorje; Rangjung Dorje; Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorjehttp://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm/407.htmlThe Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (karma pa 03 rang...
View ArticleSchedule for the 18th Kagyu Gunchö
Location: BodhgayaDates: 20 November– 17 December, 2014Debate Competition: First Round: 20 – 25 NovemberFree day: 26 NovemberPuja:...
View Article32nd Kagyu Monlam Schedule
Grand Examination of Monastic FormsDate: December 19, 2014Location: Monlam PavilionTime: 8 am–4 pmSpecial ProgramThe Initiations of “Knowing One Frees All” and VajrasattvaDates:...
View ArticlePHOTOS of HH, the Karmapa ( Feb. 18, 2000)
On February 18th, 2000, the leaders of Tibetan Buddhism and thousands of well wishers gathered at the Main Temple in Dharamsala, India to celebrate the 60th anniversary of His Holiness, the Dalai...
View ArticleTo China, via Tibet (The Asian Age)
Sunanda K. Datta-RayJul 08, 2014Having demonstrated his appreciation of Tibet’s PM-in-exile’s symbolic significance, Mr Modi can now define his Near Abroad strategy by acknowledging that the Karmapa...
View ArticleYoung Karmapa: Photo Album by Sina Vodjani
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View ArticleWatercolor Painting by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa
Beautiful print of a watercolor painted by His Holiness. Duplicated on the bottom of each print is His Holiness' signature, the date he signed the original, and His seal....
View ArticleInterview with H. H. the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee (The Times of Tibet)
by Tsering Dhondup, The Times of Tibet , Feb 25, 2005Toronto, Canada -- H. H. the Karmapa: In my view, the essence of Buddhism consists in reducing physical, mental and verbal defilement. Here is the...
View ArticleKarmapa's Great Escape by Martin Marvet (Bodhi)
This article excerpt is based on a number of stories in the press, published in such places as The New York Times, ABC News, the London Telegraph, Newsweek and the Nalandabodhi website, and a review of...
View ArticleRemembering the 16th Karmapa (Tricycle)
April 20, 2011In the 10th century AD, at the great Buddhist monastic university Nalanda in Bihar, India (which is currently being rebuilt), there was a monk named Naropa who was of the school's best...
View ArticleHis Holiness the XVIth Karmapa Lama of Tibet
Lord Karmapa with the Venerable Namgyal RinpocheThe Sixteenth Karmapa Lama, supreme spiritual head of the Kargyu school of Tibet, was an incredible being. He was one of those rare beings of whom it may...
View ArticleRetrospective of the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa's visits to America (Shambhala)
Remembering the Sixteenth Karmapa's First Visit to AmericaAn account of the first visit by the Sixteenth Karmapa to America in 1974.Excerpted from Warrior King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa...
View ArticleMiraculous Activity of His Holiness Karmapa
The following account was written in 1996 at Tsurphu Monastery in Tibet by Ward Holmes, a student of His Holiness Karmapa."I was leading a group overland from Kathmandu to Tibet, returning to Tsurphu...
View ArticleHistory of Kagyu Monlam - Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche
When we intend to listen to the teachings, we should generate the proper motivation, the altruistic mind of bodhichitta.All the buddhas of the past, entering the path, expressed their motivation....
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