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 →
Dec
22
Sep
15
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 →
Sep
12
My voice is locked. I’m not sure if I’ve got much to say, I’m losing my voice. I’ve been spending a month teaching, and so I really don’t feel like I have much to say. In general, in the current situation, it is not easy for me to go to... read more →
Sep
07
Mar Ngok Summer Teaching 2022: Day 14. In today’s shorter teaching, the Gyalwang Karmapa concluded his discussion of the First Council and the compilation of the baskets of the Sūtra and the Vinaya. He focused particularly on what various scholars have said about its structure, its time and location, the... read more →
Sep
05
The Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022: Day 13 In today’s part of his long exposition on the “Origins of Secret Mantra”, Gyalwang Karmapa related emotive vignettes from Upāli’s life, followed by accounts on his recitation of the Vinaya, then closed the teaching session with a comparative exploration of contemporary... read more →
Sep
02
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 →
Aug
31
The Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022: Day 11 After His Holiness the Karmapa had greeted everyone, he reminded his listeners that he had previously spoken about the different accounts of the First Council found in the Kangyur and Tengyur, which he had divided into two groups and described in two... read more →