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Time Asia's April 22 issue selected His Holiness Karmapa as one of the Asian Heroes from Tibet. "These heroes have won battles for noble causes, surmounted the greatest of odds and stood as examples of the best in all of us. TIME salutes the individuals whose valiance inspires us." In March, in an interview in Tricycle magazine, a Buddhist-oriented periodical published primarily in the United States, His Holiness addressed his followers in the United States, stating: "Among all my predecessors, it was the Sixteenth Karmapa who visited the United States. It is because of the Buddha activity that people in...
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His Holiness was unable to make public statements until April, 2001, when he released a public statement and held a press conference. A number of media reports chronicled his activities at the time. At the end of 2001, he was permitted to travel to Bodhgaya, where he presided over the Pal Nyammay Kagyupay Sangha Monlam Chenmo, "The Great Monlam Aspiration of the Glorious Unequaled Kagyu Sangha." The gathering of Kagyu monks from all over the world takes place annually at the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Bodhgaya, India, under the Bodhi tree, the site where the Buddha attained enlightenment.
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His Holiness presides over the Drogen Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya at the end of 2001 His Holiness led the Drogen Kagyü Monlam in Bodhgaya at the end of December. The vast ceremony required the preparations of monks from many monasteries, including Rumtek, and was attended by many thousands of monastics and lay people. His Holiness presided over all the sessions, and also taught the monastics and foreigners daily from Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation, and on other profound topics.
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BY MICHAEL FATHERS Sixteen-year-old Ugyen Trinley Dorje, the most senior religious leader in Tibet until he fled the country 15 months ago, has spoken for the first time since he joined the Dalai Lama in exile in India. Better known as the 17th incarnation of the Karmapa -- and a possible successor to the Dalai Lama -- the teenager's press conference on April 27 lifted the veil on his personality. Two days later, he sat down with TIME's South Asia bureau chief Michael Fathers and discussed growing up, missing his parents and his love of painting and music. Edited excerpts:...
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Interview with His Holiness Apr 29, 2001 (United Kingdom) BY LUKE HARDING THE LHATOK region of eastern Tibet is about as remote as the country gets. Only a few hardy nomads eke out a living here, tending their yaks and wandering across a vast expanse of grassland enclosed by white mountains. It was here 15 years ago that Ogyen Trinley Dorje was born, a baby whose life would eventually cause the Chinese government a great deal of embarrassment. It was when he was eight that a search party arrived at his parents' yak hair tent and solemnly announced that their...
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BY LUKE HARDING THE LHATOK region of eastern Tibet is about as remote as the country gets. Only a few hardy nomads eke out a living here, tending their yaks and wandering across a vast expanse of grassland enclosed by white mountains. It was here 15 years ago that Ogyen Trinley Dorje was born, a baby whose life would eventually cause the Chinese government a great deal of embarrassment. It was when he was eight that a search party arrived at his parents' yak hair tent and solemnly announced that their mission was over. They had found the Karmapa, the...
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Observer (April 29, 2001) An interview of His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa by Luke Harding Telegraph (April 28, 2001) A background piece about His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa's administration at Gyuto by Mick Brown Time Magazine (May 10, 2001) An interview by Asia bureau chief Michael Fathers
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