Colden Auditorium at Queens College, Flushing, New York -- January 28, 2018 For his first public event in several months, the Karmapa generously bestowed a longevity empowerment at the invitation of the Tibetan and Himalayan communities of New York and New Jersey. He gave a joyous crowd of over 2,000... read more →
Jan
30
Jan
08
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa has long spoken of the importance of environmental protection and regularly encourages Buddhist students and others to engage in activities that benefit the natural world. In today's podcast we go back to a short and powerful teaching by the Gyalwang Karmapa about the current climate... read more →
Dec
10
New York City, December 10th - Sikyong Lobsang Sangay, the President of the Tibetan Government in Exile, and Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile, and Mr. Ngodup Tsering, the new Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in North America, met with His Holiness the Gyalwang... read more →
Nov
01
This winter the 26th Sakya Monlam Chenmo will be held in Bodhgaya from December 26, 2017 to January 4, 2018, and the Gedun Chotrul Chenmo and Jang Guncho will be held in Bodhgaya over the course of fifteen days in January 2018. In addition, the hundred-day teaching on Mahamudra at... read more →
Nov
01
This very special episode comes from the Gyalwang Karmapa's recent trip to Canada where he participated in a dialogue between the three major traditions of the Buddha Dharma - the Theravada, Mahayana, and the Vajrayana. The topic was on how to transform disturbing emotions, and the discussion involved a 'question... read more →
Oct
21
(Reproduced from original below) Following the successful conclusion of his tour of the United Kingdom, Canada, the U.S. and Germany, His Holiness is currently on a personal visit in the United States. During his maiden visit to the United Kingdom and Canada, His Holiness gave extensive teachings and empowerments to... read more →
Sep
20
གངས་ཅན་བོད་ཀྱི་ཕ་མེས་ཀྱི་བླ་མཁར་སྲུང་བའི་དཔའ་བོ། ཞྭ་དཀར་གཡུང་དྲུང་བསྟན་པའི་མངའ་བདག །གཞིས་བྱེས་བོན་འབངས་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་མགོན་སྐྱབས། རྒྱལ་བ་སྨན་རི་བའི་ཁྲི་འཛིན་སོ་གསུམ་པ་མཆོག་རེ་ཞིག་དགོངས་པ་བོན་དབྱིངས་སུ་རྫོགས་ཤོར་བ་ནི་གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་དང་། འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིའི་མུན་ནག་སེལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་ཞིག་གཟིམ་པ་ཡིན། The supreme thirty-third Gyalwa Menri Trizin, who wore the White Hat, was a hero who defended the citadel of the ancestors of Tibet, the Land of Snow. He was the Lord of the Yungdrung Bon teachings, protecting guardian of the Tibetan people in and outside... read more →