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| | His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa - Biographical Sketch and overview of information at the Kagyu Office website |
 | | Karmapa means "the one who carries out buddha-activity" or "the embodiment of all the activities of the buddhas." In the Tibetan tradition, great enlightened teachers are said to be able to consciously arrange to be reborn as a teacher who can carry on the teachings of a predecessor in a prior life. | | | Prior to the birth of the first Karmapa, the arrival of a Buddhist master who would be known as the Karmapa was been prophesied by the historic Buddha Shakyamuni and the great tantric master of India, Guru Padmasambhava. | | | Throughout the centuries, Karmapas have been the central figure in the continuation of the vajrayana lineage in general and Kagyu lineage in particular, and have played a very important role in the preservation of the study and practice lineages of Buddhism. |
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http://www.kagyuoffice.org/karmapa.html
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| | THE KARMAPA CONTROVERSY |
| | The Karmapa is the embodiment of Sakyamuni Buddha and all the Boddhisatvas and their spiritual activities and accomplishment. | | | In the case of the Karmapa Lineage, Karmapa’s disciples must have sincere faith in the first Karmapa and in all his reincarnations, as well as the firm belief that the lineage is continuous and unbroken. | | | However, by relying on their faith in the Karmapa and their determination to support and protect His Holiness, the disciples were able to resolve the matter on all the three different occasions. |
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http://www.rinpoche.com/controversy.htm
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| | WHO IS THE GYALWA KARMAPA ? |
| | The Gyalwa Karmapa is an enlightened being, the holder of the teachings of the transmission of the Kagyu lineage. | | | Karmapa also provides important advice to disciples who are troubled by the existence of another Karmapa. | | | The Gyalwa Karmapa is the recipient of these teachings and the entire blessing that they confer. |
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http://www.dhagpo-kagyu.org/anglais/gksh-ang/karmapa_general.htm
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| | Simhanada--- 16th Karmapa Rigpe Dorje |
| | In India, the 16th Karmapa, together with the Dalai Lama, celebrated the 2500th Anniversary of the Buddha according to the Theravadin tradition. | | | His Holiness the Karmapa, with Situ Rinpoche, traveled to Tsurphu Monastery and was welcomed by Nenang Pawo Rinpoche, the 2nd Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche and Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche. | | | The Karmapa transmitted Chogyur Lingpa’s teachings to Mindroling Trichen Rinpoche, who is considered the supreme holiness of the Nyingma tradition. |
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http://www.simhas.org/karma16.html
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| | Gyalwa Karmapa |
| | The Gyalwa Karmapa is a fully enlightened being, holder of a the « transmission of the teachings », the Kagyu lineage of Buddhism. | | | Thaye Dorje is recognized as the 17th incarnation of the Karmapas prophesied by the Buddha : | | | Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, the place of the transmission of the teachings, founded by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa in 1975, is the principal European centre for the preservation and dissemination of the Kagyu tradition. |
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http://www.dhagpo-kagyu-ling.org/anglais/events/kmp_dkl_2005
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| | K a r m a . K a g y u . T r a d i t i o n |
| | Khenpo Chödrag Tenphel Rinpoche, the spiritual director of the studies and meditation program of KKS and the practitioners welcome the 17th Karmapa, Trinle Thaye Dorje with khatags in a traditional tibetan reception ceremony. | | | From June 26th to 27th the supreme head of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, the 17th Karmapa Trinle Thaye Dorje, visited the Karma Kagyü Sangha (KKS) Buddhist center in Vienna. | | | Gyalwa Karmapa gave the Initiation of Amithayus, the Buddha of Limitless Life. |
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http://www.karma-kagyu.org/17-gk/press-rel/prog04/report_index.htm
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| | The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje |
| | Spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage, Karmapa fostered the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. | | | Since that time the Karmapas have predicted the details of their own rebirths, and as the spiritual leaders of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, they also give instructions for finding the new incarnations of many other teachers. | | | Tibetans in the Kagyu tradition are devoted to the Karmapa as their spiritual leader, just as people in the Gelugpa tradition are devoted to the Dalai Lama. |
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http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/karmapa-xvi.htm#Flag
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| | KTD--The First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa-- |
| | It is interesting to note, in the light of the 16th Karmapa's prediction letter, that the abbot of the Buddhist monastery at Bodh Gaya, in India, the place of the Buddha's enlightenment, sent a conch shell to Dusum Khyenpa at Tsurphu, as a token of the latter's significance for buddhadharma. | | | The first Karmapa received empowerments and instruction in the Hevajra tantra and spent four years in strict retreat, training in the peaceful stability (shamatha) and profound insight (vipasyana) aspects of meditation. | | | (The similarities with the passing of the 16th Karmapa are remarkable.) Among his other main disciples were Tak-lungpa, founder of the Ta-lung Kagyu, Tsangpa Gyare, founder of the Drukpa Kagyu (widespread in Bhutan these days) and Lama Khadampa Deshek, founder of the Katok Nyingma lineage. |
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http://www.kagyu.org/karmapa/kag/kag07.html
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| | Image Archive of H.H. 17th Karmapa Europe tour 2005 |
| | H.H. the 17th Karmapa gave Buddhist Refuge and the Bodhisattva Promise, together with explanations of these central aspects of Buddhism to 3,200 Dharma practitioners from Germany and around the world. | | | His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje gave explanations on Buddhist Refuge and Bodhisattva Promise in the Friends Meeting House in London, the same venue where H.H. the 16th Karmapa gave the Black Crown Ceremony in 1976. | | | H.H. the 17th Karmapa gave the Empowerment on Dukar to 4,400 Dharma practitioners from Germany and around the world. |
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http://www.karmapa.org/news/picture_archive_europe_2005.htm
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| | Nalandabodhi International Karmapa News |
| | His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness Karmapa visited Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala for the 27th anniversary of the program, which educates children in the Tibetan community. | | | The Kagyu Office sent a delegation to Bhutan, and His Holiness conducted prayer ceremonies throughout the day from Dharamsala, as Her Majesty Ashi Phuntsho Choden was honored at a purjang ceremony on October 18th in Bhutan. | | | It is the first time that the 17th Karmapa coming to South India. |
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http://www.nalandabodhi.org/karmapa_news.html
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| | The Karmapa Controversy |
| | Traditionally, the Karmapas are unique among all incarnate Buddhist lamas in that they leave specific instructions detailing their future rebirth. | | | The conflict arose after a young monk, Urgyen Trinley, was falsely proclaimed the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage by Tai Situ Rinpoche. | | | After the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje died in 1981, the entire Kagyu world anxiously awaited word of his reincarnation. |
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http://www.diamondway-buddhism-university.org/KarmapaControversy.htm
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| | Karmapa News |
| | His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa joined His Holiness the Dalai Lama in at the beginning of the Shoton Festival of Tibetan Opera at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts. | | | Karmapa News has on numerous occasions before explained the Indo-Chinese border dispute and the infamous McMahon line which includes the border between Tibet and India and Sikkim and India (e.g., Karmapa News March 7-8, 2000). | | | His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa completed his most recent pilgrimage in India with a public teaching and long life empowerment in Buddha Jayanti Park in New Delhi, India. |
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http://www.nalandabodhi.net/karmapa_news_transition.html
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| | Karmapa's Gift: Tibetan Buddhism for Western Students |
| | The main introductory practice given by H. Karmapa to his Western students is the Guru Yoga Meditation of the 16th Karmapa. | | | The Guru Yoga Meditation on the 16th Karmapa in a small booklet. | | | The revered Tibetan Buddhist meditation master, His Holiness, the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, |
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http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/karmapa-gift.htm
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| | Karmapa international buddhist institute, K.I.B.I. |
| | Karmapa international buddhist institute, K.I.B.I. he Karmapa International Buddhist Institute is a college for advanced Buddhist studies. | | | KIBI's purpose is to foster wisdom and compassion through the study and translation of the great Buddhist treatises. | | | The building of the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (K.I.B.I.) in New Delhi will be reconstructed. |
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http://www.karmapa-institute.org
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| | HOME |
| | The Kagyü Mönlam 2004 – Buddhist Prayers with Gyalwa Karmapa and Künzig Shamarpa | | | Gyalwa Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje to install and bless Buddha statues at five Buddha Viharas in Uttar Pradesh. | | | Gyalwa Karmapa was asked to give the necessary empowerments to them. |
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http://www.vienna-dharma-projects.org/English
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| | Simhanada---The Lion´s Roar of Mahayana Buddhism |
| | The Gyalwa Karmapa is one of the world’s most revered Tibetan Buddhist leaders. | | | As taught by Tai Situ Rinpoche, "The recitation of Karmapa Chenno is the invocation of the blessing, and the invocation of the compassion, and the invocation of all the activities of the Buddha, in the name of the great master who is the manifestation of the activity of all the buddhas, the Gyalwa Karmapa." | | | His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa embodies the qualities of all the buddhas. |
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http://www.simhas.org
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| | kagyu samye dzong london - kagyu lineage |
| | The Karmapas have been the supreme heads of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism since the first Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, in the 12th century. | | | His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, has been living at Tsurphu monastery in Tibet since his enthronement in 1992. | | | It is reknowned for its emphasis on meditation as embodied by such great masters as Marpa, Milarepa and Gampopa, whose example inspired people throughout Tibet. |
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http://london.samye.org/london/kagyu/teachers/kagyu.shtml
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| | TIMEasia.com: Asian Heroes - Karmapa |
| | With that one act of desperation and courage, the Karmapa exposed the Chinese lie that Tibetans were happy and prospering under their rule and that they were free to practice their religion. | | | He was the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, one of Tibet's most important religious leaders. | | | To me, a Tibetan born and brought up in exile in India, news of his escape came like a reviving gust of fresh air that blew away the cloud of confusion and inertia that seemed to have descended upon our decades-old freedom struggle. |
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http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/karmapa.html
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| | Introduction to Karmapa Symposium |
| | The Karmapa is the first Tibetan Buddhist master who has an unbroken line of incarnations since 1110 AD, starting with Dusum Khyenpa, the first Karmapa. | | | This appears to be totally contrary to the notion of a religious life of non-involvement in any institutional or societal politics, and very different to the acetic life lead by the famous saint Milarepa, one of the fathers of the Kagyu lineage, who sought out caves and solitude to practice meditation. | | | Both Rinpoches in their present manifestations were brought out from Tibet at a young age by the 16th Karmapa in order to avoid being caught up in the Chinese invasion, an event which was foreseen by the 16th Karmapa as early as the 1930's. |
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http://www.karmapa.org.nz/symposium/ksintro.html
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| | The Karmapa Issue |
| | The Karmapa is the first reincarnated lama of Tibet and one of Buddhism's most venerated masters. | | | I came to Rumtek in 1961 at the age of 10 years and was guided in meditation and studies by the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa himself who appointed me to the office of Khenpo of the Monastery in 1976. | | | Juchen Tupten in the Tibetan exiled government, to subvert our rights to recognize the Karmapa from within; to bring Karma Kagyupa to its knees till it became a vassal to Dharamsala. |
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http://www.karmapa-issue.org
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| | Karma Kagyu Lineage: Addresses Worldwide |
| | In the history of Tibetan Buddhism, the Karmapa was the first reincarnated lama and Shamarpa was the second. | | | Over 709 Buddhist centers and monasteries of the Karma Kagyu lineage in 55 countries follow H.H. the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje who was recognized by H.H. the 14th Shamarpa Mipham Chokyi Lodro. | | | These centers follow the Karma Kagyu tradition of H.H. Karmapa Thaye Dorje |
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http://www.kagyu.net
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| | BBC News SOUTH ASIA Boy Lama breaks his silence |
| | India has not yet given him permission to take up the seat of his sect of Tibetan Buddhism at Rumtek monastery in the state of Sikkim. | | | The teenage Lama, who is the third most important figure in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, surfaced in Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's exiled headquarters, in January last year. | | | It was compared to the Dalai Lama's 40 years earlier after the Chinese had moved into Tibet, and was seen as a significant blow for China. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1300000/1300112.stm
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| | Dharma Chakra Centre--Welcome-- |
| | On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa attended a conference entitled “The Convergence of the Views of the Four Great Lineages of Tibetan Buddhism&; at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. | | | The conference was officiated by H.H. the Dalai Lama and featured scholars from each of the four main lineages of Tibetan Buddhism: the Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and Geluk, who were to present the views of their respective lineages. | | | His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche led a special Lamae Naljor (Guru Yoga) puja of His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje on July 14, in the private residence of the Karmapa atop the monastery. |
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| | Shamar Rinpoche "The Reincarnation and Recognition of the 17th Karmapa Thinley Thaye Dorje" |
| | The 5th Karmapa's prediction of the weakening of the lineage at the time of the 16th or 17th Karmapas actually refers to the discrepancy between the number of rebirths and the number of enthronements caused by the early death of the fifteenth reincarnation. | | | After all, by long-standing practice, it is Shamarpas who are empowered to identify and recognize reincarnated Karmapas. | | | The Chakrasambhara Tantra is her main practice and, in the tantric universe, Mount Kailash is the mandala of Chakrasambhara. |
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http://www.diamondway.org/bt/bt7recognition.htm
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| | The Karmapa, Kagyu Samye Ling and Ken Holmes |
| | karmapa kagyu karmapa, buddhism, tibet karmapa karmapa kagyu tsurphu karmapa, buddhism, tibet karmapa tsurphu karmapa kagyu karmapa, buddhism, tibet karmapa | | | The Karmapa is considered to be a living Buddha] | | | The jewels represent the preciousness of truth, those who teach it and those who preserve it, and the lotus represents purity. |
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| | Karmapa |
| | The Tai Situpa, to whom the previous Karmapa had entrusted the prediction letter, would be as one with the mind of the young Karmapa. | | | Two days later, the celestial sound of a conch shell, prophesied by the Sixteenth Karmapa in his letter, was heard by all the members of the nomadic community. | | | This statue is said to have come to China from India, where, some say, it had been made during the Buddha's lifetime by the artist Visvakarman and blessed by Lord Buddha himself. |
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http://www.samye.org/k17.htm
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| | The 17th Karmapa |
| | Many speculated that the 17th Karmapa of the Black Hats could be chosen as the next political and spiritual leader of the government in exile. | | | A Karmapa is chosen following indications left behind in a "sacred letter of prediction" by his predecessor. | | | I ask for prayers for long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as for the Karmapa and the Panchen lama. |
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http://www.geocities.com/rdtibet/karmapa.htm
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| | Karmapa and Shamarpa, past and present tradition |
| | A delegation was sent to find the boy, and he was quickly recognized as the 16th incarnation of the Gyalwa Karmapa. | | | Soon afterwards, the group reached Palpung, where the young Gyalwa Karmapa was welcomed with great ceremony. | | | ot long after the child's birth, Situ Padma Wangchuk Gyalpo opened the letter left by the previous Gyalwa Karmapa predicting the reincarnation and discovered a detailed description of the house in which the parents of Rigpei Dorje lived. |
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http://www.dhagpo-kagyu.org/anglais/gksh-ang/16karmapa.htm
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| | China And The 17th Karmapa Lama |
| | The Karmapa's role is particularly vital because of the absence in Tibet | | | The escape of the Karmapa was a body blow to Chinese claims | | | parents of the 17th Karmapa Lama, the Buddhist leader who fled Tibet for |
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http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/2000/3/8_1.html
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| | Request to the Karmapa 1 |
| | In August, 1994, on behalf of the Jamgon Kongtrul Labrang, Tenzin Dorjee and Sonam Chopel journeyed to Tsurphu monastery, Tibet, to entreat His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, for his recognition of the reincarnation of the Third Jamgon Kongtrul. | | | They were advised to perform 100,000 pujas of Guru Rinpoche and many prayers of supplication for Jamgon Rinpoche’s swift return. | | | The following year, in April, 1995, Tenzin Dorjee visited the Karmapa in Tsurphu once more, to request news about the reincarnation. |
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http://www.jamgonkongtrul.org/request.htm
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| | Websites on Buddhism |
| | His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyan Drodul Trinley Dorje | | | Born in 1955 in eastern Tibet, Traleg Rinpoche was recognised by His Holiness the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu lineage, as the ninth incarnation of the Traleg lineage, which can be traced back to the time of Saltong Shogam, a contemporary of the first Karmapa. | | | Karma Choeling - This Buddhist centre is a study and retreat facility, located north of Auckland, New Zealand. |
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| | Diamond Way Buddhism.org |
| | They are not abstract institutions but friendly places where all can meet to learn from Buddha's timeless wisdom, meditate, share experience and development, and actively participate and do the work which makes all this possible. | | | This website represents 490 lay Diamond Way Buddhist centers and groups of the Karma Kagyu Tradition under the spiritual guidance of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje, and directed by Lama Ole Nydahl. | | | Since then the teachings of Diamond Way Buddhism have gradually found their way to the West. |
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http://www.diamondway-buddhism.org
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| | KARMA KAGYUD SINGAPORE- Main Page |
| | Public Statement by the Monks community of H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa | | | During this time, the Vikramashila Institute has a month holiday and our Centre take this opportunity to invite him for some dharma teachings and pujas to benefit our members and devotees. | | | Politics is a no-no for Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje |
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http://www.karma-kagyud.org.sg
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| | Rumtek Newsletter |
| | The Karmapa Charitable Trust is trying its utmost to revive the old systems of the administration of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. | | | The Karmapa Charitable Trust sought justice in the courts after Rumtek Monastery was violently taken over by Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche on August 2nd 1993 | | | In July 1997, The Karmapa Charitable Trust, the legal body given responsibility for Rumtek Monastery by H.H. the 16th Karmapa, filed a lawsuit against Tai Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche. |
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http://www.rumtek-newsletter.org
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| | Articles About Karmapa |
| | This is a menu of articles about the Karmapa, the first lama to incarnate intentionally. | | | Every outgoing message is scanned; every incoming one also. |
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