Jan 14

Approaches to Understanding the Thirty Verses of the Mind Only

Kagyu Gunchoe Winter Teachings 2023 • Day 1 14 January 2023 Before the first session of the 2023 Kagyu Gunchoe Winter Teachings began, His Eminence Kyabje Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche Yangsi, and Khenchen Lodro Donyo Rinpoche made a mandala offering to His Holiness the Karmapa. Sweet dresil rice... read more →
Dec 22

The Inauguration of the 23rd Kagyu Gunchoe

Bokar Shedra Öbar Chime Ling 22 December 2022 After a Covid-19 enforced hiatus, the Kagyu Gunchoe – the Winter Dharma Gathering for Monks – is able to unfold once again with renewed exuberance. Located in West Bengal’s verdant countryside of forests and tea gardens teeming with birds, the stunning Bokar... read more →
Sep 15
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The Essence of Glory: A Shakyamuni Puja in the Kadampa Style

The Mar Ngok summer teachings concluded with the Gyalwang Karmapa leading the monastic communities in a Shakyamuni puja. The recitations included the Karmapa’s newly composed “Praise of Shakyamuni Buddha,” based on Mātṛceṭa’s “Hymn to the Buddha in 150 Verses” (Śatapañcāśatka), an extensive and complex work. The sadhana for the main... read more →
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Sep 02

Ananda’s Offenses, Arhatship, and Recitation of the Sūtras

Mar Ngok Summer Teaching 2022 Day 12 His Holiness explained that he would continue speaking on the second of the two accounts, as taught in the “Great Commentary on the Hundred Thousand Prajnaparamita” attributed to Nagarjuna. The teaching session began with an explanation of Ananda’s six offenses. There are primarily... read more →