The second session of the teaching began with the text: Thus there are few who have turned their minds away from this life. Many say they are bodhisattvas, but I wonder whether they are really focused on this life. I think about what I would do if I were to... read more →
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13 February 2017 – Monlam Pavillion, Bodhgaya The second session on the first day of the 34th Kagyu Mönlam started with the Mandala Offering with 37 Features, for which a long line of lay practitioners formed up, their white clothing, accented by the five-coloured silks of the offerings they were... read more →
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13 February 2017 - Monlam Pavillion, Bodhgaya Thriving Aspirations for the World come from a Peaceful Mind Just before the break of dawn, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa led the assembly of many thousands into the seven days of virtue and pure aspirations of the 34th Kagyu Monlam. With a... read more →
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Monlam Pavillion, Bodhgaya — 11 February 2017 In the afternoon lecture on The Four-Session Guru Yoga, the Gyalwang Karmapa gave nuanced instructions to the assembly on visualisations essential for this profound sadhana practice. In a truly gracious manner, His Holiness extended the session until late in the afternoon in order to... read more →
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11 February 2017 - Monlam Pavillion, Bodhgaya, Displaying creative and informed scholarship of history, the Karmapa divided his morning talk among four main topics that clarified key features of his incarnation lineage: the history of the Karma Kamtsang, including the concept of the four earlier and the eight later lineages;... read more →
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10 February 2017 - Monlam Pavilion, Bodhgaya The Karmapa began the afternoon session by reading from the remaining text of the Guru Yoga section of the Torch of True Meaning: “There are four factors for devotion to become the path….if you see the guru as having faults, the impurity of your... read more →
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10 February, 2017 – Monlam Pavilion, Bodhgaya A year after the launch of the ADARSHA website, which lets you read and conduct searches of ancient Tibetan documents in a digital format, the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje has announced the launch of a second website: DHARMA EBOOKS. Both websites are... read more →
