January 22, 2017 - Tergar Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India Today the Gyalwang Karmapa’s Altruism Publications released a new book in its series, Philosophical Views: Beautiful Ornaments of the Dakpo Kagyu. This volume discusses the views of the Mind Only school and was created by the Committee for Composing Manuals... read more →
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January 22, 2017 - Tergar Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India The Gyalwang Karmapa finished his teachings for the Winter Debates by giving a reading transmission of the last section of the Three Essential Points, which covered the supplementary instructions on view, meditation, and conduct. This part is long and very... read more →
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January 21, 2107 - Tergar Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India After teaching the accumulation of merit that leads to realizing the form kayas, the Karmapa turned to the next section of Mikyö Dorje’s instruction that shows how to view and meditate on profound emptiness and achieve the dharmakaya through the... read more →
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January 21, 2107 - Tergar Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India Yesterday, the Karmapa covered the first two of the three points, and today he discussed the third, the essential point of the Bardo. The root verse states: Recognize that this is the bardo. Transform the outer, inner, and secret And... read more →
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January 20, 2017 - Tergar Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India Today the Gyalwang Karmapa began a teaching based on the Three Essential Points, the next section from Mikyö Dorje’s One Hundred Short Instructions. The three points relate to the essence of practice for this life, for the time of death,... read more →
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January 19, 2017 - Tergar Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India Having finished explaining the creation phase, His Holiness turned to the completion phase. He read the passage from the text that speaks of three focuses for the practice of mahamudra: 1) staying undistracted like a soldier whirling his sword as... read more →
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January 18, 2017 - Tergar Monastery, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India Today the Gyalwang Karmapa continued his talks on the practice of Avalokiteshvara, moving on to discuss the main mediation practice of creation and completion. He began by reading the text, which describes coming to enlightenment in various ways: through emptiness,... read more →