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Topic: Gyalwa Karmapa


In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Qualities
The Gyalwa Karmapa is the father and mother of all sentient beings, the parent of all sentient beings.
The Gyalwa Karmapa is the crown deity of all the oceans of deities.
The Gyalwa Karmapa is the embodiment of the activities of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
www.khandro.net /Karmapa_qualities.htm   (3011 words)

  
 WHO IS THE GYALWA KARMAPA ?
The Gyalwa Karmapa is an enlightened being, the holder of the teachings of the transmission of the Kagyu lineage.
Karmapa also provides important advice to disciples who are troubled by the existence of another Karmapa.
The Gyalwa Karmapa was in France with his entourage of monks and professors to study for several months at Kundreul Ling, a monastic hermitage near Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne).
www.dhagpo-kagyu.org /anglais/gksh-ang/karmapa_general.htm   (802 words)

  
  Karmapa controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The lineage is an important one as the Karmapa is traditionally the head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Of the past Karmapas, Situ Rinpoche has recognized the 8th, 9th, and the 16th Karmapa and, along with Gyaltsap Rinpoche, the 14th.
This letter said that the karmapa was to be reborn "to the north, in the east of the land of snow." This was interpreted at the March 1992 meeting of the council of the four regents to mean that he would be reborn in eastern Tibet (north of Rumtek).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karmapa_controversy   (2797 words)

  
 Dharma Chakra Centre-His Holiness the Karmapa seat
His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa accompanied by His Eminence Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche had an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his residence in the morning at Tsuklag Khang Dharamsala.
From October13 until the anniversary of the parinirvana of His Holiness the 16 Gyalwa Karmapa on October 19, monks at Rumtek monastery are performing the Guru Yoga puja.
As instructed and advised by His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa, two monks and nuns from each Karma Kagyu monastery and nunnery in India, Nepal, and Bhutan have gathered here in Rumtek.
www.rumtek.org   (811 words)

  
 Karmapa's Qualities by Tai Situ Rinpoche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Today we began the recitation of Karmapa Khyenno, which is the invocation of the blessing, and the invocation of the compassion, and the invocation of all the activities of the Buddha, in the name of the great master who is the manifestation of the activity of all the Buddhas, the Gyalwa Karmapa.
The Gyalwa Karmapa is the source of all the 84,000 Dharmas which manifest as (part and path??) of the enlightenment of the Buddha Shakyamuni.
Therefore Gyalwa Karmapa is the crown jewel of the ocean of deities.
www.fourgates.com /karmapaqualities.asp   (2326 words)

  
 --Rumtek: A Brief History of the Sixteenth Karmapa--
Each Karmapa incarnation possesses the unique ability to predict detailed circumstances of his next rebirth, usually revealed in a letter to be opened after his death.
The Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, was found in Tibet according to the letter, and his recognition was confirmed by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet.
Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje made a daring escape from Tsurphu to Dharamsala, India in late December 1999 that captured the attention of the world.
www.rumtek.org /rh/rh00.html   (724 words)

  
 K a r m a . K a g y u . T r a d i t i o n
Gyalwa Karmapa, the district mayor of Hamburg, Lama Ole, members of the city senate, the protestant Bishop of Hamburg, and a representative from the German Buddhist Union gave speeches at the ceremony.
Gyalwa Karmapa arrived in the afternoon to Brescia, Italy from Nice accompanied by his entourage and Lama Könciog Luigi, president and resident lama of Karma Tegsum Ciò Ling Brescia.
Gyalwa Karmapa gave the Initiation of Amitabha, the Buddha of Limitless Light, and a Bodhisattva promise to 2,200 Dharma practitioners from Germany and around the world.
www.karma-kagyu.org /17-gk/press-rel/prog04/report_index.htm   (3821 words)

  
 Karma Triyana Dharmachakra - His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa
His name was the Gyalwa Karmapa, "The Victorious One of Enlightened Activity." Thereafter, he continued to return, generation after generation, until the present seventeenth Karmapa.
The Karmapa is said to embody the activity of all the buddhas of the past, present, and future.
The sole purpose of the Karmapa's incarnation is to lead living beings from the suffering of samsara into freedom- the realization of mind's deepest, pure nature.
www.kagyu.org /kagyulineage/karmapa/index.php   (241 words)

  
 Karmapa - The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rikpe Dorje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rikpe Dorje, was born in the kingdom of De-ge, in eastern Tibet, in 1923, as the son of a noble family called A-toop.
The Karmapa himself continued on to Sikkim, where he was again warmly received by the royal family and formally invited to establish his new seat.
His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa brought it to the world, turning the wheel of dharma on all its levels and immaculately establishing the right conduct, meditation and wisdom which are the three mainstays of the Buddha's teachings.
www.samyeling.org /Buddhism/Tibetan_Buddhism/k16.htm   (4243 words)

  
 Karmapa News 9/25-12/16
The Ninth Karmapa directed the construction of three monasteries in Sikkim, one of which, at Rumtek, was to become the seat in exile first occupied by the Sixteenth Karmapa.
He nevertheless describes all actions by Situ Rinpoche with regard to the Karmapa as attacks on the Shamar Rinpoche "regency." This purported naive motivational analysis is wildly unbalanced, for "regency" in Tibet does not mean that the regent is heir to the wealth of the Karmapa.
Since the Karmapa is often mentioned as important to the balance between China, India and the Tibetan government in exile, many news outlets have focused on the Karmapa's absence from the ceremony.
www.nalandabodhi.org /karmapanews9-26-12-16.html   (5356 words)

  
 Simhanada---The 17th Gyalwa Karmapa
The First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, was born in the 12th Century C.E. Dusum Khyenpa received the transmission of the Kagyu lineage, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, from his guru Gampopa.
The Karmapa is the emanation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokitesvara), known as Chenrezi in Tibet.
In this eon, Shakyamuni (born as Siddhartha) was the fourth buddha and Maitreya shall be the fifth buddha.
www.simhas.org /17Karmapashort.html   (690 words)

  
 Karmapa the Black Hat Lama of Tibet
The present 17th Karmapa was found and recognized as the genuine Karmapa reincarnation by H.H. Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, second to the Karmapa in the Karma Kagyu Lineage.
Gyalwa Karmapa was asked to give the necessary empowerments to them.
Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh, Gyalwa Karmapa was Guest of Honour at the conference.
www.karmapa.org   (974 words)

  
 Image Archive of H.H. 17th Karmapa Europe tour 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje was the guest of honor at an interfaith reception to celebrate Friendship and Trust, at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London.
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje gave explanations on Buddhist Refuge and Bodhisattva Promise in the Friends Meeting House in London, the same venue where H.H. the 16th Karmapa gave the Black Crown Ceremony in 1976.
H.H. the 17th Karmapa gave Buddhist Refuge and the Bodhisattva Promise, together with explanations of these central aspects of Buddhism to 3,200 Dharma practitioners from Germany and around the world.
www.karmapa.org /news/picture_archive_europe_2005.htm   (854 words)

  
 An Interview with Trinley Thaye Dorje, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Each of the Karmapas has proved himself to be the Karmapa through his conduct and his qualities and has then been confirmed as the Karmapa's incarnation by a realized disciple of the respective previous Karmapa.
The 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje, was born in Tibet in 1983.
Karmapa Urgyen Trinley, who fled Tibet in January 2000, and who is widely reported on in the international media, is not identical with Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje.
www.diamondway.org /bt/bt8interview.htm   (1834 words)

  
 Karmapa News: Home
A week-long course was given by the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI) in the capital of India.
Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje and the students at Shri Diwakar Vihara Institute for Buddhist Research began the annual Mahakala puja that precedes the celebrations for Losar.
Gyalwa Karmapa was invited to be the Chief Guest and about 60.000 people came to take refuge together.
www.karmapa-news.org   (1021 words)

  
 The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
Spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage, Karmapa fostered the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West.
Another similarity between the Karmapa and the Dalai Lama is that both are considered to be embodiments of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Chenrezig.
The 16th Karmapa saw this flag in a dream, and announced "Wherever this banner is flown, the Dharma will expand." Historically, the Karmapas' predictions have been correct.
www.dharma-haven.org /tibetan/karmapa-xvi.htm   (1364 words)

  
 Karmapa - The Seventeeth Gyalwa Karmapa, Urgen Trinley Dorje   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The initial finding of the Karmapa now completed, a short period was spent in the Kalek area during which Akong Rinpoche made acquaintance with the Karmapa and his family as the full import of what was happening settled in.
After years of uncertainty and anxiety and a distinct feeling of being in limbo, the joy of the Karmapa's discovery was as tremendous as one might imagine it to be upon hearing good news that one has awaited for a decade.
The Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa is an extraordinary being.
www.samyeling.org /Buddhism/Tibetan_Buddhism/k17.htm   (4738 words)

  
 Lama Ole Nydahl: The Official Homepage
Since he and his wife Hannah met the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa while honeymooning in Nepal in 1968, they have dedicated their lives to Buddhism.
Gyalwa Karmapa is the spiritual leader of the ancient Karma Kagyu lineage, one of the main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
In 1972, the 16th Karmapa directed Lama Ole Nydahl to found the first European Karma Kagyu center in Ole's hometown of Copenhagen, Denmark.
www.lama-ole-nydahl.org   (350 words)

  
 H.H. The Gyalwa Karmapa
The Gyalwa Karmapas, well-known as spiritual leaders of Tibet, China and the Himalayas, were foretold by the historical Buddha Shakyamuni of our era.
The Karmapas ("Holders of Buddha-Activity") have been at the center of Buddhist contemplative and scholarly traditions in Tibet since the twelfth century.
The present Karmapa, H. the seventeenth Karmapa Thaye Dorje, was born in 1983.
www.karmapa-institute.org /teatchers/founders.htm   (337 words)

  
 Karma Kagyü Sangha - The 17th Gyalwa Karmapa in Vienna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
All of these Karmapa incarnates have proven themselves as authentic Karmapas by means of their respective conduct and activity and they were always confirmed as being the Karmapa's reincarnation by a realized disciple of the respective previous Karmapa.
Künzig Shamarpa, second to the Gyalwa Karmapa in the Kagyü school, thus investigated the circumstances regarding the child.
It was the Gyalwa Karmapa's wish that, during his stay in Vienna, Khenpo Rinpoche too, as his teacher, gives teachings.
www.karma-kagyu.at /en/news/karmapa2005   (600 words)

  
 Gyalwa Karmapa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, the place of the transmission of the teachings, founded by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa in 1975, is the principal European centre for the preservation and dissemination of the Kagyu tradition.
The Gyalwa Karmapa is a fully enlightened being, holder of a the « transmission of the teachings », the Kagyu lineage of Buddhism.
In this teaching, the Gyalwa Karmapa will explain the six paramitas, the qualities that must be developed in order to accomplish the two benefits: our own and that of other beings.
www.dhagpo-kagyu-ling.org /anglais/events/kmp_dkl_2005   (768 words)

  
 The Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Thinley Thaye Dorje
Since the Twelfth Century, when the first Karmapa, Tüsum Khyenpa, wrote a letter stating where his next incarnation would be found after his death, the Karmapas have always recognized themselves.
At the age of 11, after the he and his family had fled from Tibet, he was officially recognized as the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa by the 14th Kunzig Shamarpa, the second highest Lama in the Karma Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
Traditionally, it is the Sharmapa's responsibility to recognize the new Karmapa and to make sure that he is trained appropriately.
www.dharma-haven.org /tibetan/karmapa-xvii.htm   (661 words)

  
 Bodhi Path Topics of Interest
Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje has been staying at Dhagpo Kundrol Ling, his main European Monastery, since 6th February 2000 in order to continue his spiritual education.
Gyalwa Karmapa therefore invited Chobgye Trichen Rinpoche, the head of the Tsalpa Lineage of the Sakya School, to come to Kundrol Ling in France.
He is also He accepted Karmapa’s invitation in spite of his age and travelled to France together with a few of his monks.
www.bodhipath.org /news/karmapa-training.html   (429 words)

  
 kagyu samye dzong london - kagyu lineage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Karmapas have been the supreme heads of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism since the first Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, in the 12th century.
As the central teacher of the Kagyu lineage, he ensures that the teachings are transmitted in their entirety and preserved for future generations.
The Karmapa is an extraordinary individual, whose life itself may be seen as a profound teaching.
london.samye.org /london/kagyu/teachers/kagyu.shtml   (245 words)

  
 Kagyu Office: the Website of His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa
In July, the Gyalwang Karmapa met with Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche, who was in Dharamsala as one of the representives of the Nyingma Lineage at the Tenshug for His Holiness Dalai Lama.
The Karmapa also received a Kalachakra transmission from HE Gyaltsab Rinpoche and was Chief Guest at the debates at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah.
In March, His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa toured South India as part of a month long visit to Tibetan Settlements in the area.
www.kagyuoffice.org   (1747 words)

  
 Announcement to Karma Kagyu Buddhist Centers - Kagyu Asia News
Being entrusted with the legal and administrative responsibilities of His Holiness the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the trustees of the Karmapa Charitable Trust (KCT) have officially designated His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa the legal heir of his illustrious predecessor.
Established according to previous directives of The KCT trustees and operating under the spiritual leadership of His Holiness, the Council of His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa has begun to assist and advise the 17thKarmapa.
The Council, however, wishes it to be known that any one who was involved in the takeover of the monastery, directly or indirectly, should send an apology letter to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa or else be prevented from seeing the holy relics and attending future religious ceremonies at the monastery.
www.kagyu-asia.com /n_announcement_centres.html   (344 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com: Asian Heroes - Karmapa
He was the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, one of Tibet's most important religious leaders.
With that one act of desperation and courage, the Karmapa exposed the Chinese lie that Tibetans were happy and prospering under their rule and that they were free to practice their religion.
The Karmapa's escape was a loud wake-up call to those of us who have spent a lifetime in exile.
www.time.com /time/asia/features/heroes/karmapa.html   (517 words)

  
 Rumtek row: Member sees bid to secede from India
It was built in 1730 by the ninth Gyalwa Karmapa and rebuilt after a fire.
On June 27, 1992, the Chinese authorities proclaimed Ogyen Thinley Dorjee as the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa.
In his complaint, Singh has alleged that the recognition of a Sino-Tibetan boy as the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa was based on ``fabricated'' evidence.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19981022/29550454.html   (689 words)

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