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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 ways. As the first way of describing it had already been covered, His Holiness expressed the necessity to now look at the conclusion of the description of the first account, giving the following outline: Ananda teaches Channa the Dharma (according to the “Five-Part Vinaya” of the Mahīśāsaka school) How Ananda...
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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 Theravāda “Khandhaka” The Mahāsāṅghika Vinaya Comparative sequential ordering of the events of The First Council, according to four disparate traditions of extant Vinaya The Order of the First Council According to the Dharmaguptaka “Four-Part Vinaya” The Mallas’ preparations for the cremation Mahākāśyapa learning of the Buddha’s parinirvana Mahākāśyapa seeing the...
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Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022 Day 9 The Karmapa opened by saying he had been unable to teach for a few days because of feeling tired and possibly catching a cold, so he had taken some time to rest. Although he called it rest, he still had a lot of work he needed to do. Then he welcomed everyone to the ninth day of the Mar Ngok Summer teachings. He gave a brief review of the last few sessions when he spoke about Mahākāśyapa and Ānanda, along with other background information, so today he would begin the accounts of the...
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Mar Ngok Summer Teachings Day 8 “Ananda was handsome in appearance and naturally gentle. These characteristics made him attractive to many people, especially women.” Speaking on the third topic of early Buddhism, His Holiness Karmapa focused on Ananda and his attitude toward women, quoting a sutra from his in-depth research. In the “Sutra of the Buddha’s Skillful Means in Repaying Kindness” (Mahopāya-kauśalya-buddha-pratyupakāraka-sūtra), a Mahayana sutra translated into Chinese during the Han dynasty, it says: Ananda was the condition for women to enter the Buddha’s teaching. Gautamī, (King Suddodhana’s second wife, also known as Mahāprajāpatī or Prajāpatī), in the future, bhikshunis,...
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The Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022: Day 7 Before His Holiness the Karmapa began the teachings, he spoke about the fact that although the Coronavirus pandemic has overall been well contained in China, it is presently spreading in the Autonomous Region of Tibet as well as in all the areas of Xinghai and Sichuan, where there are large Tibetan populations, which, His Holiness continued, has made him feel quite concerned. His Holiness gave the advice that we do not only need to be careful personally, but as Tibetans, who are Buddhists and go for refuge to the Buddha, Dharma and...
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Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022 Day 6 As Day 6 of the Mar Ngok teachings fell on Indian Independence Day, His Holiness began by extending auspicious greetings to friends in India, noting the strong connections between India and Buddhism in general, and India and the Tibetan culture in particular. Buddhism developed in India, while the Tibetan script system was modelled on Indian sources. Brief homage was paid to India’s national tree, the nyagrodha or banyan, a type of fig tree plentiful in India; it is shaped like an umbrella, with a width that matches its height. The Karmapa resumed telling...
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Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 2022 Day 5 The Karmapa welcomed everyone to the fifth day of the Mar Ngok Summer teachings. He noted that since he had lost his internet connection at the end of the previous teaching, he had been unable to complete the fourth day. And since he was uncertain what was lost and what got transmitted, he would begin by speaking once more about the leadership of the sangha and the authority of the leadership of the sangha. The Leadership of the Sangha The Indian scholar S.R. Goyal maintains that during the Buddha’s lifetime, the Buddha was...
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