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Jun 30
Karmapa birthday talk 2022

Celebrating Gyalwang Karmapa’s Birthday with a Specially Compiled Smoke-Offering Puja

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
Karmapa podcast episode 18

Karmapa Teaches Mindfulness and Meditation to Young People (Podcast Episode #018)

"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

Mind Only Texts in Chinese 


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

Losar Tashi Delek

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.  
Feb 23

A Prayer for the Swift Return of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche by the Gyalwang Karmapa

ཀྱེ་མ་ཀྱེ་ཧུད། སྙིང་དབུས་ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རིའི་ཕོ་བྲང་གི་དབུས་སུ། ། ཕ་གཅིག་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཡབ་ཡུམ་དེ་མཁྱེན་ནོ། ། བསོད་ཟད་ལས་ངན་དྲག་པོའི་རླུང་ཤུགས་ཀྱིས་འཁྱེར་ཏེ། ། མགོན་མེད་ཉམ་ཐག་གྱུར་པའི་སློབ་འབངས་ལ་གཟིགས་དང་། ། སྤྱི་བོ་བདེ་ཆེན་འཁོར་ལོའི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་དུ་བཞུགས་པའི། ། ཁྲག་འཐུང་བདུད་འཇོམས་གླིང་པ་ཡབ་སྲས་དེ་མཁྱེན་ནོ། ། ཁོང་པའི་སྙིང་དང་འདྲ་བའི་སྐྱབས་གནས་ཀྱིས་བོར་ནས། ། འདི་ཕྱིའི་རེ་བ་སྟོར་བའི་རྗེས་འཇུག་ལ་གཟིགས་དང་། ། སྐྱབས་གཅིག་པདྨ་བཞད་པའི་ངོ་མཚར་གྱི་བཀོད་པ། ། ད་ལྟ་མིག་གི་དབང་པོའི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་ལས་འདས་ཏེ། ། གསུང་སྙན་རྣ་བར་ཐོས་པའི་སྐལ་བཟང་ཡང་མེད་པས། ། དབང་པོ་སྒོ་ལྔ་འཛོམས་པའི་དོན་གོ་ཡང་སྟོར་སོང་། ། དམུ་རྒོད་གློ་བ་རེངས་པའི་སྙིགས་དུས་ཀྱི་སེམས་ཅན། ། མ་དད་ལོག་རྟོག་དྲི་མས་ཕྱི་ནང་ཀུན་སྒྲིབ་ཀྱང་། ། སྤྱོད་ངན་བུ་ཚ་བྱམས་པའི་ཕ་མ་ཡིས་སྐྱོང་ལྟར། ། ཐུགས་རྗེའི་གཏེར་ཆེན་ཁྱེད་ལ་མི་རེ་ནི་ཀ་མེད། ། ཀ་དག་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ཀློང་ནས་འགག་མེད་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་སྐུར། ། སེམས་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་ལ་གཞིར་བཞེངས་སུ་མཛད་ནས། ། མ་ལུས་འགྲོ་བའི་ཁམས་རྣམས་སྨིན་གྲོལ་དུ་མཛད་པའི། ། སྤྲུལ་པའི་ཉི་གཞོན་གསར་པ་ཐོགས་མེད་དུ་བྱོན་ཤོག ། ཨེ་ཀ་ཛ་ཏི་ལ་སོགས་དམ་ལྡན་གྱི་སྲུང་མ། ། ད་ནི་ལེ་ལོ་བཏང་སྙོམས་ཅུང་ཟད་ཀྱང་མེད་པར། ། སྔོན་ནས་བསུ་ཞིང་རྒྱབ་ནས་སྐྱེལ་མ་ཞིག་མཛད་དེ། ། མི་ཡི་ཉི་མ་ཞིང་འདིར་གདན་འདྲེན་ལ་ཕེབས་ཤིག ། བསྟན་འགྲོའི་མགོན་དཔུང་མཚུངས་མེད་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་བདུད་འཇོམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཡང་སྤྲུལ་པདྨ་བཞད་པ་གང་ཉིད་གློ་བུར་དུ་དགོངས་པ་རྫོགས་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ་དེ་ནི་བསམ་ཡུལ་ལས་འདས།... read more →
Feb 23

The Lasting Influence of Mind Only and the Position of the Buddha Nature School

A Teaching on Vasubandhu's The Thirty Verses: Day 9 6 February 2022 Karmapa began by reviewing the point he had made in the previous day's teaching – that no independent Mind Only school ever developed in Tibet and that it was held in low esteem. In Candrakirti's root text and commentary... read more →
Feb 23

The Spread of Mind Only Treatises in Tibet

A Teaching on Vasubandhu’s The Thirty Verses: Day 8 4 February 2022 The Dharmas of Maitreya and how the study of them developed The Gyalwang Karmapa began the morning by greeting everyone with wishes for auspiciousness and good health. Since it was the eighth day of the winter teachings, he briefly... read more →
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MIND TRAINING TEACHING
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THE PRAJNAPARAMITA
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100 SHORT INSTRUCTIONS
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