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	Temple Art Studios; Tsurphu
		Tsurphu monastery is situated in a valley two hours northwest of The landscape here, at over 4600m, is mainly sloping mountainsides brightly speckled with wild flowers in the warm season --white peaks ahead and a rushing river below.
		Drupon Dechen Rinpoche (the late the abbot of Tsurphu), and Tsurphu Gompa.
		Tsurphu Gompa is the original seat of all the Gyalwa Karmapas and the Karma Kagyu Lineage.
	www.tibetcolor.com /tatsurphu.htm (3879 words)

	Tsurphu Monastery Pictures and travel information - China Travel Attraction
		Tsurphu Monastery and Nam Tso (Nam Lake) lie 70km and 230km respectively northwest of Lhasa.
		Tsurphu, sits at an altitude of very nearly 4500m, and can be reached from Lhasa within 2 or 3 hours, or otherwise combined with Nam Tso as a 2 or 3 day trip.
		Tsurphu is the official home of the Karmapa Lama, the third ranking priest in Buddhist hierarchy, and he still lived there until he left over the Himalayas to India in February of this year, 2000.
	www.muztagh.com /china-attraction/lhasa/tsurphu-monastery.htm (273 words)

	Terris Temple and Leslie Nguyen: Giant Thangkas of Tsurphu Monastery
		Tsurphu monastery dates back to 1187 when the first Karmapa - Dusum Kyenpa - identified the auspicious location for his dwelling.
		The finished work was brought to Tsurphu and was consecrated that same day by H.H. Karmapa, as it was displayed on the original wall as a rehearsal for the coming event.
		The "Giant Tsurphu Thangka" video was used in a fundraising campaign in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan which successfully raised half the money needed.
	www.asianart.com /tsurphu/index.html (3455 words)

	Trekking from Tsurphu to Yangbachen, Fly to Tibet Lhasa, Tsurphu Monastery, Trek to Tsurphu, Tibet Camping Trekking, ...
		Trekking from Tsurphu to Yangbachen, Fly to Tibet Lhasa, Tsurphu Monastery, Trek to Tsurphu, Tibet Camping Trekking, Yangpachen Monastery
		Day 04: Drive Lhasa to Tsurphu monastery, which is 60 km, away from Lhasa.
		The trek begins at Tsurphu, heading west or up the valley.
	www.friendshipnepal.com /tibet/trekking_tsurphu.php (686 words)

	Karma Triyana Dharmachakra - His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa
		From his arrival at Tsurphu in 1992, His Holiness was involved primarily in dharma studies.
		Much of the physical rebuilding of Tsurphu Monastery and renewed dharma activity that continued what has historically taken place there over the past 800 years flourished since the Seventeenth Karmapa returned in 1992.
		The giant Tsurphu thangkas were recreated and displayed on auspicious days, and sacred lama dances that had not been practiced for decades were once again performed in the main courtyard.
	www.kagyu.org /karmapa/kar/kar03.html (1967 words)

	Kagyu Tekchen Chöling - The Karmapas -
		During his life, it founded three main monastic centers: Tolung Tsurphu, near Lhasa, that represents The Karmapa’s mandala of the Mind; Karma Gon, considered the mandala of the Word; and Kampo Nenang, the mandala of the Body.
		When he returned to Tsurphu two years later, the offering was miraculously recovered from the Namtsho lake, and the monastery could be reconstructed.
		The XVII Karmapa was enthroned in the monastery of Tsurphu on 27 September, 1992.
	www.kagyuargentina.org /ingles/karmapa01-en.htm (2673 words)

	Rebuilding Tsurphu - The Karmapa in Tibet - the Karmapa website
		Reconstruction of Tsurphu was extremely difficult because Tibetan people were very poor and any support they could provide was very limited.
		Most of the original Tsurphu Monastery complex was restored and a new shedra, or monastic college, addition was built.
		Many devoted students and followers of the Kagyu lineage visited His Holiness Karmapa at Tsurphu and donated their services for the effort of rebuilding the original seat at Tsurphu Monastery.
	www.kagyuoffice.org /karmapa.tibet.rebuildingtsurphu.html (319 words)

	Victoria Brooks' Greatest Escapes Travel Webzine
		Tsurphu Monastery and the Karmapa: Tsurphu Monastery is located 26 kilometers from the nearest paved road, approximately 70 kilometers northwest of Lhasa.
		Tsurphu Monastery, seat of the Karmapa, was founded in 1187 by Dusum Khenypa, the originator of the Karma Kagyupa suborder of Tibetan Buddhism and instigator of the system of reincarnation whereby incarnate lamas are reborn within a lineage.
		Urgen Thinley Dorji, born in 1985 to a nomadic Tibetan family, was enthroned at Tsurphu as the 17th Karmapa in September 1992.
	www.greatestescapes.com /index.php?articleid=266&page=4&issue=2001-01 (457 words)

	Tibetan Bulletin - Online: Volume 5, Issue 3, July-August, 2001
		The number of monks at both monasteries has declined, partly as a result of patriotic education campaigns at the monasteries leading to expulsions of monks, and because monks are leaving due to the absence of a senior religious figure.
		They were assisted by a letter written by the teenage Karmapa, then at Tsurphu, giving details of the location and time of year of the child's birth and clues to the names of his parents and information on the environment.
		The road from Tsurphu to Lhasa was to be rebuilt with the assistance of funding from Western and Taiwanese Buddhist organisations, and Lama Tsewang Tashi from Nyenang monastery was involved in helping with the development of education and health-care facilities in the area.
	www.tibet.net /en/tibbul/2001/0107/pawo.html (781 words)

	Shen Pen Company Limited (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tsurphu Monastery was built in 1187 which is the most important monastery of the Karma Kagyu lineage.
		Tsurphu is located in the northwest part of Tolung valley (now under Tolung Dechen Shen, the County of Lhasa Municipality) about 70 kilometers (about 44 miles) from the capital city of Lhasa.
		Behind the complex rises the "Thukje Chenpo" mountain, in front is the Tsurphu River.
	www.shenpenhk.com /EN/Nt-sm.htm (147 words)

	The 16th Karmapa/ 1950 - 1959/ Travel to Chang, China, India
		Karmapa returned to Tsurphu on the seventeenth day of the tenth month of the same year completed and on the twenty-seven (1952).
		On the eighteenth day of the fourth month of the male water snake year (1953) Karmapa journeyed to Lhasa, where be had audience with His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyamtso, and received the empowerment of Kalachakra from him.
		The Dalai Lama accepted his invitation to visit Tsurphu, during which visit the Black Hat ceremony was performed for him, and in return he gave the empower-ment of the compassionate Avalokiteshwara.
	www.karmapa.org /karmapa_org_redesign/history/karmapa_16/16ka3_3.htm (752 words)

	KSDL.ORG: Karma Sonam Dargye Ling
		The Seventeenth Karmapa did in fact return to Tolung Tsurphu Monastery in Central Tibet in 1992, where he was enthroned on September 27, 1992, with the permission of the Chinese government, a first in Tibet.
		While His Holiness was at Tsurphu, the monastery underwent extensive rebuilding to restore the temples, shrines, stupas, a shedra, and residences that had been destroyed over the years, fulfilling one of the main duties of a Karmapa.
		Leaving Tsurphu Monastery with a handful of attendants, he began a daring escape by car, foot, horseback, helicopter, train and taxi, a heroic journey which was to become the stuff of headlines throughout the world.
	www.ksdl.org /karmapa.php (706 words)

	Dharma Chakra Centre--Welcome--
		Ogyen Trinley Dorje was born in the region of Kham in eastern Tibet in 1985.
		Subsequently, at the request of Tsurphu Monastery, the two Rinpoches conducted an elaborate ceremony at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, in the presence of the Jowo, the most revered statue of the Buddha in Tibet.
		According to the wishes of all the lamas, monks, and lay community of Tsurphu Monastery, as well as the Karma Kamtsang monasteries of upper, middle, and lower Tibet, His Holiness was enthroned at Tsurphu Monastery, the main seat of all the Gyalwa Karmapas, on September 27, 1992.
	rumtek.org /hh/ht/tibet00.php (336 words)

	Kagyu Tekchen Chöling - Los Karmapas -
		Dusum Khyenpa dejó el monasterio de Tsurphu en manos de su discípulo Drogön Rechen, junto con una carta que predecía las circunstancias de su próxima reencarnación.
		Inspirado por esta visión, escribió un profundo tratado de astrología, que más tarde fue conocido como el sistema Tsurphu que aún hoy se halla en uso.
		Abandonó su monasterio de Tsurphu, y viajó con un reducido grupo de monjes atravesando los pasos de invierno del Himalaya hacia la libertad.
	www.kagyuargentina.org /karmapa01.htm (2673 words)

	Kalacakra Calendar
		As the initial epoch given for both the Phugpa and Tsurphu systems is 1447 C.E., there is not much point in having examples of their calendars until some time later.
		For the Tsurphu tradition the two main texts used were the "Excellent Flask of Essentials" (nyer mkho'i bum bzang) of Karma Ngelek Tendzin (karma nges legs bstan 'dzin) and the "Compendium of Practical Astronomy" (rtsis kyi lag len legs bshad kun 'dus) of Jamgon Kongtrul ('jam mgon kong sprul).
		It is worth noting that in modern times, some Tsurphu calendar makers have started to include minor corrections in their calendars, particularly to the longitude of the Sun.
	kalacakra.org /calendar/tibcal.htm (847 words)

	Rumtek--Activities--
		To this end, the Tsurphu Labrang appointed a lama who had completed a three-year retreat, and a junior khenpo from Karma Shri Nalanda Institute to look after the Yangsi Rinpoche and manage the administration of Maha Monastery.
		He returned to Tsurphu Monastery safely and in good health, and gave all the offerings he received during his tour to the Tsurphu Labrang, the administrative body of the Karmapa.
		The Main Prayer Hall of Tsurphu was rebuilt, adorned with a main statue of the Buddha made out of bronze, an image of His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, statues of one thousand buddhas, and many thangkas.
	www.rumtek.org /mn/mnac/ac2005/ac2005a.html (2175 words)

	JAMGON KONGTRUL RINPOCHE THE FOURTH
		In June of 1992, I was in Tibet at Tsurphu Monastery, and the late Ven.
		As I had helped to rebuild Tsurphu Monastery for several years, He also mentioned that I would be allowed to see Karmapa whenever I wanted.
		Karmapa told him and his group that they had come to Tsurphu on the same day that He had witnessed some very auspicious signs which included a single burst of the thunder, sunshine with rain and a rainbow in front of the monastery.
	www.khamaid.org /about_kham/news/jamgon.htm (1598 words)

	Murder Bid Made Karmapa Flee \| Friends of Tibet (INDIA) Data-Base
		It was an assassination bid and the constant threat to his life that prompted the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorjee, to flee from Chiness-occupied Tibet early this year.
		At the Tsurphu monastery, a Tibetan security officer and a monk responsible for the security activities, have been detained by the authorities and their whereabouts are unknown.
		Monks, who were part of the monastic management, are being replaced and others have been warned to improve their "political attitudes".
	www.friendsoftibet.org /databank/tibetexile/tibete81.html (627 words)

	Karma Triyana Dharmachakra - The Venerable Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
		At eighteen, he and a few other monks were sent on a pilgrimage to Tsurphu Monastery, the seat of His Holiness Karmapa, to meet him for the first time.
		Two and a half months later and without further incidents, the lamas reached the area of Tsurphu Monastery, not far from Lhasa in central Tibet.
		The Bhutanese would not grant immediate passage through their country, so the lamas were forced to spend one month at the blockaded border, when more than a thousand Tibetans died of starvation.
	kagyu.org /karmapa/tea/tea15.html (1520 words)

	Tsurphu to Yangpachen Trek photo - Jason Cox photos at pbase.com
		The hike we decided upon was from Tsurphu monastery to Yangpachen monastery.
		Even on the 3hr bus ride to the trailhead, I was trying to hold it all together and when I got a phone call from work, my system somehow settled down.
		Both of us were pretty slow the first day, but made it to the where we needed to get to which was a small community called Leten.
	www.pbase.com /image/63637150 (1253 words)

	Diamond Way Buddhist Center, TwinCities
		On the basis of this letter the authorities of the Tsurphu monastery were able to successfully locate the child.
		In 1959, due to the occupation of Tibet, Karmapa decided to flee his country, realizing that the cause of the Dharma would be served the best by escaping the ever-tightening grip of Communist China.
		Accordingly, accompanied by an entourage of 160 lamas, monks and laymen, Karmapa left Tsurphu monastery, the traditional seat of the Karmapas, and proceeded towards Bhutan.
	www.diamondway.org /minneapolis/2k16.html (456 words)

	Religious ceremony in Lhasa
		A lama bugles during a religious ceremony in a valley near Tsurphu Monastery, 70 kilometers northwest of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region on July 29, 2006.
		Lamas take a rest during a religious ceremony in a valley near Tsurphu Monastery, 70 kilometers northwest of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region on July 29, 2006.
		A lama drums to call on a religious ceremony in a valley near Tsurphu Monastery, 70 kilometers northwest of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region on July 29, 2006.
	www.gov.cn /english/2006-07/30/content_349675.htm (160 words)

	The Rumtek row
		Matters came to a head in January 2000 with the sudden appearance of the 14-year-old Ugyen Trinley Dorje from the remote Tsurphu monastery in Tibet at Dharmasala in Himachal Pradesh.
		Members of the Tsurphu Labrang and the Denzong Lhadey Tsokpa are against such an exercise.
		The order is being used by Tsurphu Labrang, Denzong Lhadey Tsokpa and the State government to demand the entry of Ugyen Dorje to Rumtek.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1908/19080390.htm (1494 words)

	Great_Escape
		In a poem in 1944, he mentioned his "untold grief" in parting and in leaving his "fledglings" (disciples) behind, but he promised he would meet again with his students "in great joy" in Tsurphu "when the Lord of the Path is held by the king of birds," that is, in 1993.
		Tsurphu has been the home of the Karmapas since the time of Dusum Khyenpa, the first Karmapa, who lived at Tsurphu from 1184 until his parinirvana in 1193.
		The cultural revolution was not the first time Tsurphu had been damaged, and it has always later been rebuilt under the direction of the Karmapas.
	www.bodhionline.org /great_escape.html (704 words)

	Karmapa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tolung Tsurphu, not far from Lhasa, is thought of as the mind-mandala of the Karmapas.
		Tsurphu became the main seat when Dusum Khyenpa passed away there in 1193.
		It is the reputation for this kind of spiritual ability that contributed to the political power the Kagyupas had until the rise of the Fifth Dalai Lama when in 1642, Tsurphu monastery was sacked by the Mongols.
	www.khandro.net /Karmapas.htm (2669 words)

	Tibetan News Update
		Pawo Rinpoche's traditional seat, Nyenang monastery in Toelung Dechen (Ch: Duilong Deqing) county, Lhasa municipality, is near Tsurphu, the Karmapa's monastery in Tibet, and the two institutions have close religious and social ties.
		The number of monks at both monasteries has decreased, partly as a result of patriotic education campaigns at the monasteries leading to expulsions of monks, and also because monks are leaving due to the absence of a senior religious figure.
		Development projects were in progress at both Tsurphu and Nyenang monasteries before the Karmapa's escape to India.
	www.friends-of-tibet.org.nz /news/august_2001_update_5.html (756 words)

	Sukhasiddhi Foundation - Buddhist Meditation in the Kagyu Tradition
		Before the party left, three suns appeared in the sky and were seen by many hundreds of people in the surrounding area.On September 27 of the same year, the Chinese government officially allowed the recognition of Ogyen Trinley Dorje as the seventeenth incarnation of the Karmapa.
		Shortly after returning to Tsurphu he departed on a formal visit to Beijing at the invitation of the government of the People's Republic of China.During his stay in Beijing, he met with numerous officials and was formerly introduced to President Jiang Zemin and Chairman Li Peng.
		The giant Tsurphu thangkas were recreated anddisplayed on auspicious days, and sacred lama dances that had not been practiced for decades were once again performed in the main courtyard.In 1999 His Holiness Karmapa made another trip to Beijing at the invitation of government and religious officials of the People's Republic of China.
	www.sukhasiddhi.org /karmapa.php (1531 words)

	Karmapa - The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rikpe Dorje (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After this ceremony, the Karmapa was given a second enthronement, at Tsurphu, by the Tai Situpa and the Head of the Drukpa Kagyu school.
		Upon his return to Tsurphu in 1948, he received the final transmissions of the Kagyu teachings from two gurus: the Second Palpung Kongtrul and the Eleventh Tai Situpa, who was now very advanced in years.
		Unattached to any country, any people or any thing—a friend and example for everyone—it was his duty as a monk to give teachings and nurture the dharma wherever he might be.
	samyeling.org /Buddhism/Tibetan_Buddhism/k16.htm (4243 words)

	Diamond Way Buddhism, USA
		In 1931 the young incarnate was ordained as a novice monk in Palpung monastery.
		Later he traveled to Tsurphu, visiting many monasteries and places of pilgrimage on the way, where the Black Hat ceremony was first performed in this lifetime.
		Accordingly, accompanied by an entourage of 160 Lamas, monks and laymen, Karmapa left Tsurphu monastery, the ancient seat of the Karmapas since the 12th century, and proceeded towards Bhutan.
	www.diamondway.org /usa/print/116k.php (745 words)

	Shen Pen Company Limited
		In addition, living expenses is also an issue for Tsurphu as the number of monks inhabited in Tsurphu has reached 430 at this time.
		Reconstruction and maintenance of Tsurphu was extremely difficult because Tibetan people were impoverished and any support they could provide was very limited.
		Once you have shopped at Shen Pen, we will present your name to Lamas who reside in Tsurphu Monastery so that they will dedicate their prayers and all the merits to you.
	www.shenpenhk.com /EN/Nt-xd.htm (311 words)

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