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The Main Chakrasamvara Empowerment
Monlam Pavilion, Bodh Gaya, IndiaFebruary 8, 2017On this remarkable day, after two days of initial rituals, the followers of Gyalwang Karmapa had, for the first time, been given the opportunity to...
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The Torch of True Meaning: Session One
Monlam Pavilion, Bodh Gaya, IndiaFebruary 9, 2017This year sees the conclusion of a five-part teaching begun by the Karmapa on 31st December 2012, the year in which the Kagyu Monlam commemorated the...
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The Torch of True Meaning: Session Two
Monlam Pavilion, Bodh Gaya, IndiaFebruary 9, 2017A SummaryThe Karmapa emphasized the importance of sustaining our commitments once we have received an empowerment and nurturing through practice the...
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Torch of True Meaning: Session Three
Monlam Pavilion, Bodhgaya10 February 2017The Gyalwang Karmapa began teaching where he had left off in Session Two, by reading the section on the words from the Mukhagama of Manjushri, found in The...
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The 17th Karmapa Launches a New Website: DHARMA EBOOKS
A year after the launch of the ADARSHA website, which lets you read and conduct searches of ancient Tibetan documents in a digital format, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje has announced the launch...
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Torch of True Meaning Session Four
Monlam Pavilion, Bodhgaya10 February 2017The Karmapa began the afternoon session by reading from the remaining text of the Guru Yoga section of the Torch of True Meaning:“There are four factors for...
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Four-Session Guru Yoga Session One
Monlam Pavillion, Bodhgaya,11 February 2017Displaying creative and informed scholarship of history, the Karmapa divided his morning talk among four main topics that clarified key features of his...
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Four-Session Guru Yoga Session Two
Monlam Pavillion, Bodhgaya — 11 February 2017 In the afternoon lecture on The Four-Session Guru Yoga, the Gyalwang Karmapa gave nuanced instructions to the assembly on visualisations essential for this...
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The Senior Sangha Lunch
A distinct feature of each Kagyu Monlam is the formal daily lunch in Tergar shrine room specially prepared and offered to fully ordained Sangha, those who hold the vows of gelong [bhikshu] orgelongma...
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Tormas and Altar at the 34th Kagyu Monlam
A special feature of the annual Kagyu Monlam are the elaborate butter sculptures designed by the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. These beautiful tormas were featured in the...
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Compassion in Action: The Well-Being Free Medical Camp
Sujata Vihar, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India — 14 February, 2017The essence of the mahayana teachings is bodhichitta, the wish to attain full awakening so we have the capacity to truly benefit others. From...
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17th Karmapa Visits the Milarepa Exhibition and Friends of Kagyu Monlam...
Mahayana Hotel, Bodhgaya — 15 February, 2017On the third day of the 34th Kagyu Mönlam, His Holiness the Karmapa joined the Mönlam Members' lunch, which is set out every day at the Mahayana Hotel for...
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We will now take our demand directly to PM: Sangha MLA - Sikkim Express
PANKAJDHUNGELGANGTOK, February 16: Monks under The Denjong Lhadey on Thursday afternoon concluded their two-day foot rally from Rangpo to Gangtok covering a distance around 41 Km. The rally ended at BL...
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Akong Tulku Memorial Soup Kitchen
All India Bikkhu Sangha and Shakya Muni College, Bodhgaya—14 February, 2017On the second day of the 34th Kagyu Monlam, the Gyalwang Karmapa blessed the opening of the Akong Tulku Memorial Soup Kitchen,...
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The Opening Session of the 34th Kagyu Monlam Chenmo in Bodhgaya
Monday, 13 February 2017Thriving Aspirations for the World come from a Peaceful MindJust before the break of dawn, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa led the assembly of many thousands into the...
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The Soliloquy of Geshe Potowa: Session One
Monday, 13 February 2017The second session on the first day of the 34th Kagyu Mönlam started with the Mandala Offering with 37 Features, for which a long line of lay practitioners formed up, their...
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The Soliloquy of Geshe Potowa: Session Two
Tuesday, 14 February 2017The second session of the teaching began with the text:Thus there are few who have turned their minds away from this life. Many say they are bodhisattvas, but I wonder whether...
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The Soliloquy of Geshe Potowa: Session Three
Wednesday, 15 February 2017After welcoming everyone, the Gyalwang Karmapa continued reading from the text of Geshe Potowa:In my opinion, we must flee the suffering of samsara—the very thing we are...
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34th Kagyu Monlam Program
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Nuns' Jackets Designed by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa
His Holiness requested all the nuns tocome to the main shrine room of Tergar Monastery at 7pm saying he had a gift for them. When His Holiness arrived he explained that someone had sponsored jackets...
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