The Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022: Day 3 Poṣadha Karmapa opened the teaching session with an introduction to the meaning and practice of the early sangha’s rituals. According to the Japanese scholar Umada Gyokei, at the completion of the rains retreat and before sangha members set out on their travels,... read more →
Aug
05
Aug
03
The Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022: Day 2 3 August 2022 1. Establishing seniority in the sangha In secular society, seniority is often given according to age or status, but in the vinaya tradition it is given according to the “seniority of vows” irrespective of age. The seniority of vows... read more →
Aug
01
Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022: Day 1 1 August 2022 To open the long awaited 5 weeks of summer teachings, His Holiness the Karmapa welcomed the Sangha and international community with warmth and a quiet radiance. In the previous year, he reflected, he had covered many topics: the spread of... read more →
Jun
30
Today was an historic occasion in the history of the Karma Kamtsang. For the first time, monasteries, nunneries, dharma centres and individuals worldwide were able to join together through Zoom and over the internet to celebrate the Karmapa’s birthday according to the Tibetan calendar, that is the First day of... read more →
May
23
"We have to remember that we are always changing. Every second we're changing. We're changing from moment to moment. As the watch goes 'tick tock, tick tock' we are also changing with every second. So what this means is that while we might have a problem in the first moment,... read more →
Mar
03
A Teaching on Vasubandhu's The Thirty Verses: Day 10 8 February 2022 Karmapa began by offering his greetings to the Sangha members in the Shedras, spiritual friends and teachers, tulkus and all of the lay and monastic people who were listening. He said, "To all of my dharma friends who... read more →
Mar
03
རབ་གནས་ཆུ་སྟག་ལོའི་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་ཁོ་བོ་ཀརྨ་པའི་མཚན་འཛིན་ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཕྲིན་ལས་པས་གཞིས་བྱེས་སྤུན་ཟླ་ཡོངས་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ། HH the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa wishes you all Losar Tashi Delek (Happy New Year) - Tibetan lunar year of Water Tiger.