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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Mar Ngok Summer Teaching 2022 Day 10 On day 10 of the Mar Ngok summer teachings, His Holiness resumed the presentation of the order of the First Council, attempting to compile and synthesize disparate accounts from the following four extant sources: The Dharmaguptaka “Four-Part Vinaya” The Mahīśāsaka “Five-Part Vinaya” The... read more →
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