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  Karmapa to visit US in May The Karmapa's Office of Administration joyfully announces that His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, will visit the United States from May 15 through June 2, 2008. The recent outburst of Tibetan rage against the Chinese government not only demonstrated once again the fear and anger among Himalayan Buddhists living under the cultural insensitivity of Beijing, it also illuminated the crucial role of the Dalai Lama, navigating skillfully between restive Tibetan exiles and an Indian government under Chinese pressures to stifle their protests. What will happen when he is gone? Editor’s note: The façade of Tibetan unity has unraveled and along with it, the Dalai Lama’s power base. Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly in Tokyo, was executive producer of the video documentary “Flight of a Karmapa” (Nachtvision 2002) taped in the Tsurphu area of Tibet, the Mustang region of Nepal, Sikkim and Dharamsala.  Karmapa defends Dalai Lama Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee has totally rejected the Chinese allegation that the Dalai Lama was behind the recent unrest in Tibet. In an exclusive interview to HT, the 22-year-old who heads the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, added that he wanted to visit the US simply to fulfill a deep-seated yearning to see that country. “The idea that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has somehow instigated a well-orchestrated agitation just to create disturbances before the Olympic Games in Beijing is not correct,” the Karmapa said, breaking his silence for the first time on the issue. The third-ranking religious authority for Tibetan Buddhists, he has for years been "controlled" by the Chinese police in Tibet, and has experienced the "cultural genocide" underway. In the winter of 2000, at the age of 14, he fled to the mountains and found asylum in India. Dharamsala (AsiaNews) - The Karmapa Lama, the spiritual leader of "Kagyupa Tibetan Buddhism," could be in the United States in May. The Indian media report that the central government has granted him a visa. But there is silence and embarrassment on the part of official sources. New Delhi, April 09: The United States has for the first time granted visa to Karmapa Lama, who is widely seen as the successor to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. The development comes after clearance of the 22-year-old Karmapa’s trip by New Delhi. The Tibetan monk has been staying at the Gyuto Tantric Monastery in Dharamsala since his escape to India from Tsurphu in Tibet in 2000. NEW DELHI: After waiting eight years at the Gyuto Tantric Monastery in Dharamsala, the Karmapa Lama is finally getting ready for his first trip abroad. The 22-year-old Tibetan monk, who stunned his followers, embarrassed Beijing and triggered a diplomatic spat between India and China with his daring escape to India from Tsurphu in Tibet in January 2000 when he was just 14, has been granted permission by the government of India to travel to the US from May 15 to June 2.
 Biography Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche The Venerable Chögyam Trungpa was born in the province of Kham in eastern Tibet in 1939. When he was just thirteen months old, he was recognized as a major tulku, or incarnate teacher. According to Tibetan tradition, an enlightened teacher is capable, based on his or her vow of compassion, of reincarnating in human form over a succession of generations. Before dying, such a teacher may leave a letter or other clues to the whereabouts of the next incarnation. Later, students and realized teachers look through these clues and, based on those plus a careful examination of dreams and visions, they conduct searches to discover and recognize the successor. In this way, particular lineages of teaching are formed, in some cases extending over many centuries. Chögyam Trungpa was the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa Tulkus. Along with the blood drenched landscape of religious conflict there is the experience of inner peace and solace that every religion promises, none more so than Buddhism. Standing in marked contrast to the intolerant savagery of other religions, Buddhism is neither fanatical nor dogmatic--so say its adherents. For many of them Buddhism is less a theology and more a meditative and investigative discipline intended to promote an inner harmony and enlightenment while directing us to a path of right living. Generally, the spiritual focus is not only on oneself but on the welfare of others. One tries to put aside egoistic pursuits and gain a deeper understanding of one’s connection to all people and things. “Socially engaged Buddhism” tries to blend individual liberation with responsible social action in order to build an enlightened society. The birth anniversary of Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar would be celebrated with full grandeur at Mhow on Saturday. A number of programmes are being organised to mark the occasion. The leader of Buddhist community, 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje would inaugurate the main function and seminar on 'Contribution of Dr. Ambedkar Towards National Unity and Social Harmony'. TIBET has long exerted a strange hold over the Western imagination as a land of mystery and wisdom, whose people possess the secrets of true happiness and the meaning of life. They are also seen as a martyred people, victims of half a century of Chinese occupation that is sometimes equated with genocide. But much that has been written about Tibet is highly superficial, based on the authors’ idea of what Tibet ought to be like rather than any objective reality - what the mountaineer F. Spencer Chapman memorably called “the real Tibet of my imagination”.  Ace of Diamonds - A conversation with Lama Ole Nydahl Prague blossomed in orange and red last month for a visit by the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje. Karma Kagyu, which was established in the 11th century, is one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, passing on the Vajrayana Buddhist practice known as the Diamond Way. In Karma Kagyu, the centuries-old tradition of “oral transfer” of Buddhist practices is highly treasured. Particularly important is the teacher and disciple relationship. The word karmapa means “holder of Buddhist activity,” and his followers believe the current Karmapa is in his 17th conscious human incarnation.
 MEET THE FUNKY BUDDHA He spends his spare time surfing the internet and watching The Simpsons, his heroes are England cricketers Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff and he'd love to meet The Beatles and Elvis. It sounds like any other 24-year-old's profile on social networking site MySpace. But forget about meeting up with this guy for a drunken one-night stand - because he is one of the holiest men on the planet. His website profile is that of many 24-year-olds. He likes the band Black Eyed Peas and action films such as Spider-Man; he watches the BBC news, The Simpsons and Lost, his heroes are Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and Peter O’Toole and he would like to have met Elvis and Mahatma Gandhi. He includes on his MySpace blog film of his Mum and Dad, a gallery of his friends and comments and greetings from readers and admirers. The spiritual leader of the Tibetan people is now 71 - and finally talking about retirement. But his successor is likely to face the same life of exile as China's persecution continues. He seems always to have been around. Was there ever a time when the Dalai Lama's chuckling, roly-poly form was not on television or in the magazines and newspapers, as familiar as Father Christmas or Terry Wogan or the Queen? And now we hear he's going to retire. It's hard to believe.  21st-Century Religious Travel: Leave the Sackcloth at Home IT’S not often you meet a god. But on a pouring day last summer in Dharamsala, home to the Tibetan exile community in India, I did. In a monastery outside town, I was shown into a vast, bare room. At the front sat the 17th Karmapa Lama, third-ranking leader in Tibetan Buddhism — a figure considered almost a god by many Tibetans. The Karmapa fled Tibet when he was a boy, but in exile he had become a man, in his early 20s, with a broad, shaved head and meaty arms beneath his flowing monk’s robes. Unlike last year’s grand birthday celebration at the Gyuto Tantric Monastic University here in Dharamsala, this time the celebration is sensibly kept simple in view of the fact that this year is considered an obstacle year for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In a traditional Buddhist ceremony, Karmapa was presented a long life offering (Tenshug) by Ven. Tsering Phuntsok, Minister for Religion and Culture of Central Tibetan Administration here this morning. The battle over choosing the next Dalai Lama has begun. One that threatens to strip Tibetan Buddhism of perhaps its most thrilling and mysterious of practices—reincarnation. At the heart of the conflict is the 14th Dalai Lama, now 72 years old, who is preparing himself and his people for life after him.
Recently, on January 9, 2007, His Holiness Shamarpa Rimpoche met His Holiness Orgyen Trinley Rinpoche at 10 a.m. in the Oberoi Intercontinental Hotel at New Delhi, India. Gangtok, Jan. 15: The meeting between Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorji and Kunzig Shamar Rimpoche in New Delhi on January 9 has evoked mixed reactions. Reviewed By Baljit Singh THE author, a senior journalist with The Hindustan Times, describes his book as a "chronicle of rogues in robes..... a racy potboiler depicting the seamy" struggles of venerated Tibetan reincarnations, spiritual gurus who trace their roots far back in antiquity to the Buddha and even earlier. And he lives up to the claim. The account is littered with tales of monks smuggling gold on diplomatic passports, indulging in drunken orgies, conspiring in forgeries and assassinations. There is even a guru’s steamy affairs with his disciple, another accused by male lovers of infecting them with AIDS, culminating in the final ignominy of the senior Regent actually dying of AIDS. Published in The Sacred Life of Tibet, HarperColllins, 1997 by Keith Dowman Only a hundred thousand Tibetans left their homeland in the wake of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in 1959. Thirty-five years later, small but flourishing Tibetan lay communities exist in most large cities of America, Europe and East Asia, hundreds of Tibetan gompas and temples have been built in the Indian sub-continent and around the world, and Tibetan Buddhism has become one of the fastest growing religions on the planet. The Dalai Lama himself, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has international status as a man and politician of rare, if not unique, integrity, and has assumed a high media profile in his crusade for the survival of Tibetan culture and for the oppressed people of his country. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Geluk order and his name is well known, but performing the same quality of spiritual guidance are scores of other lamas with similar status within their communities of Tibetan, Asian and Western disciples. How has this tiny number of representatives of a nation of four million people achieved such international renown? Tibet lies at the centre of Asia, with an area of 2.5 million square kilometers. The earth's highest mountains, a vast arid plateau and great river valleys make up the physical homeland of 6 million Tibetans. It has an average altitude of 13,000 feet above sea level.
 Official statement from www.karmapa-issue.org regarding Orgyen Trinley meeting Shamar Rinpoche After various attempts to get an audience and have a personal meeting with H.H. Shamarpa Rinpoche, H.H. Orgyen Trinley Rinpoche finally met Shamarpa Rinpoche at Delhi on the 9th of January at New Delhi, India . On January 9, 2007, at the request of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Tenzin Chonyi, His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa granted an audience to His Eminence Shamar Rinpoche at 10:00 A.M. at the Oberoi Intercontinental Hotel, New Delhi. The spiritual leader of the Kagyu sect of Buddhism- one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism- Karmapa Lama has expressed displeasure over the media coverage of war and strife all across the world, saying that the media cannot dictate or influence the national affairs of a country. Gangtok, Jan. 12: More than 300 monks from North Sikkim called on chief minister Pawan Chamling here today, demanding that his government do its best to ensure that the Karmapa visits Phodong monastery to preside over religious ceremonies. Book explores schism between Buddhists Reviewed By Alice Mannette STAUNTON — Erik Curren of Staunton had worked in public relations, seen the fast life and wanted to regroup. A little more than 11 years ago, he investigated Buddhism, became intrigued and began to practice. He loved Tibetan Buddhism's integrity, the ability to meditate and the practice of "thinking for yourself," he said. But then he heard something that perplexed him. A schism had occurred between several lamas — Tibetan Buddhist religious leaders. "When I found out about this controversy a lot of doubts arose in my mind," Curren said. "I started thinking, were these Buddhist teachers following their own precepts?" Reviewed By Tsering Namgyal 23 December 2003 Asian Times When the teenaged Karmapa Lama fled from Tibet to India in January 2000, he renewed the hopes of many Tibetans exiled in that country. Orgyen Trinley Dorje is recognized - at least in some quarters - as the reincarnation of the widely popular 16th Karmapa - head of monastery - of the important Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, which has its headquarters in Sikkim, a small state run by India but claimed by China.
 Report from the Council of H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa In early 2005, the head of the Drikung Kagyu School, H.H. Drigung Chetsang Rinpoche contacted H.H. Shamar Rinpoche while he was conducting teachings on the Sutra of Alankara in Hong Kong. Drigung Chetsang Rinpoche informed Shamar Rinpoche that in early 2004, he had a meeting with H.H. Orgyen Trinley Rinpoche in Bodh Gaya, India. Drigung Chetsang Rinpoche told Shamar Rinpoche that during their meeting, Orgyen Trinley Rinpoche had expressed respect for Shamar Rinpoche’s important position as a lineage holder. Orgyen Trinley Rinpoche also said that he was willing to pacify the longstanding Karmapa controversy and asked Drigung Chetsang Rinpoche if he could arrange a meeting between himself and Shamar Rinpoche. Shamar Rinpoche told Drigung Chetsang Rinpoche that he would give his response once he returned to India. A fog of confusion seems to surround much of the 'Tibet issue'. It also wraps itself around some individuals who are at the heart of the matter. Perhaps no one embodies this better than the current head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the seventeenth Karmapa, Urgen Trinley. Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee (SPCC) president Mr Nar Bahadur Bhandari has taken a strong exception to the denials made by Mr BB Gurung, advisor to the chief minister, to the corruption charges levelled by the Congress against the chief minister and said Mr Gurung had “no right” to speak in the matter. Railway lines fulfill dreams. At least in modern times. But the one about to link central Tibet with China threatens to dash hopes. When passenger trains begin running on this stretch in 2007, hundreds of Han Chinese will immigrate to Tibet. Tibetans are already in a minority in the cities. This new influx will just swamp them. And, this is precisely what Beijing wants: a less gruesome form of ethnic cleansing. Added new ticker window to display current changes updated links and navigation around the site changed position of Book Reviews in preparation to expand content added more articlesto Karmapa Symposium added karmapa dream flag favion to navigation bar.
 May 17th 2006: Announcement to Karma Kagyu Buddhist Centers in Asia, Europe, and the Americas from the Council of His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa 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. After spending several years, in Gyuto Tantric University in Sidhbari, near here, the 17th Karmapa will soon have permanent residence of his own. His office has been looking for a piece of land close to Dharamsala for the setting up of a monastery to house the Karmapa and his staff. On Wednesday May 10, His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, the spiritual head of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, visited Kalimpong India to meet with His Holiness Karmapa. Upon arrival, he was greeted with the traditional pomp and circumstance. Thereafter, His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche blessed the Shri Diwakar Vihara Buddhist Institute, which was established by Shamar Rinpoche in 2002.  Dharamshala: The 21st birthday of Gyalwa Karmapa, head of Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, was held yesterday at the Gyuto Monastery here. Devotees from Taiwan, Korea, Bhutan, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand and all over the world have gathered to offer their wishes to Gyalwa Karmapa as he turned 21 yesterday.
 H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa arrived in Mexico City on March 13th, 2006. He gave two empowerments in Mexico City on March 14th and 15th. On March 15th there was a reception in the Ministry for Internal Affairs with Carlos Abascal Peniche, State Secretary of the Government of Mexico.In the afternoon more than 300 Lamas and devotees led by III Lopon Tenzin Rinpoche from all over Taiwan were holding white silk scarves and hailing “Yeshi Norbu Tashi Delek” , this included Sang Sang Rinpoche, and followers from Hong Kong as well, welcomed H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje in the CKS International Airport near Taipei. Many people in Asia and the USA ask me how three independent authors, Mick Brown, Lea Terhune and Gaby Naher could all be wrong about the Karmapa issue. Here is my answer.  The Day the Last Monastery in Shangri-La Fell— Buddha's Not Smiling is the anatomy of a crisis. On August 2, 1993, Rumtek monastery was attacked. Its monks were expelled and the cloister was given to a lama appointed by the Chinese government. But Rumtek was not in China, and its attackers were not Communist troops. Rumtek was in India, the refuge for most exiled Tibetans. And it was Tibetan lamas themselves who led the siege. Evidence shows that the Chinese Communists directly supported Tibetan lamas and monks who attacked Rumtek monastery.
 On a narrow winding lane on a Himalayan mountainside, past Indian army soldiers and burly, shaven-headed monks, lies a monastery at the centre of a feud that has split normally gentle Tibetans who revere a living god crowned with a black hat. Two rival factions of Tibetan Buddhism are fighting for control of the 30ha site of the Rumtek monastery, a few kilometres outside Gangtok, capital of the Indian state of Sikkim. The rivalry is such that there have been violent brawls between the monks, accusations of graft and corruption and a travel ban placed on the protagonists by Indian authorities, who want to keep a lid on Tibetan passions. Tibetan Buddhism is a fusion of Buddhism with the ancient, animistic religions of the rooftop of the world: Bon and Hinduism. It has four schools of thought. The oldest is Nyingmapa, founded by the monk Padmasambhava, who spread Buddhism from the Indus to the Tibetan plateau in the 8th century. The spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Buddhism, 17th Karmapa, Thaye Dorje, will visit the UK, for the first time, this week and will be guest of honour at a special inter-faith celebration to be attended by the Bishop of London.  Leaders from the World’s seven largest Faiths; Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Jainism and Sikhism this week.
The specialist field of my research is religion and politics in Tibetan societies, and I have written and researched in this field since my doctorate, which was awarded in 1976 for a thesis on religion and politics in Tibetan societies. This thesis, and my principal book on Tibetan religion, Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, published in 1993, both discuss the role of reincarnate lamas (tulku) in Tibetan religion at length, and I have continued to gather material on these topics subsequently, also working on other aspects of Tibetan culture and society. My research is based on interviews, participant observation, and study of documentary materials in Tibetan and in Western languages. The position of HE Beru Khyentse Rinpoche as spiritual director of the New Zealand Karma Kagyu Trust has been confirmed by the Auckland High Court. The Judge rejected the arguments of the former trustees saying "... there is no basis to refute the plaintiff's contention that he has at all material times possessed the authority to supervise the board in carrying out the objects of the trust." In March last year after the unfortunate events which occurred when Rinpoche returned to New Zealand he dismissed the trustees. A copy of the judgment is available Rigpedorje.com  It is over five years since a 14-year-old Tibetan monk made a dramatic escape over the Himalayas to India, travelling over 1,500 kilometres from his monastery in Tibet, evading Chinese border troops and risking death by exposure to the cold. The return of the 17th Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje, who is currently staying in Dharamsala, to the Rumtek monastery in Sikkim depends entirely on India, the Dalai Lama has said.
 We learned from the media that Lama Naran Singh, an Indian national of Bihar (India), filed another court case against His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, India. We wish to inform everyone concerned that none of my followers nor I have any connection with Lama Singh in this regard and that he never consulted me or any of my followers directly or indirectly regarding his ideas, plans and actions. Twelve years have passed since Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche was killed in a car accident. Since that time, a great many details surrounding the tragic event have come to be known. Today, it is important that information surrounding Jamgon Rinpoche’s death be reviewed in light of all the known facts. In July 1997, The Karmapa Charitable Trust, the legal body given responsibility for Rumtek Monastery by H.H. the 16th Karmapa, filed a lawsuit against Tai Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche. The Karmapa Charitable Trust sought justice in the courts after Rumtek Monastery was violently taken over by Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche on August 2nd 1993 with the help of then-Chief Minister of Sikkim Nar Bahadur Bhandari. The case lingered in the courts for several years while legal arguments were conducted. In 2002, the District Court ruled in favor of the Karmapa Charitable Trust. For reasons that I cannot fathom, recent books on the Karmapa controversy by two supporters of Tai Situ Rinpoche, Lea Terhune and Mick Brown, employ the term “Heart Sons” to describe four Karma Kagyu lamas—Shamar Rinpoche, Situ Rinpoche, Gyaltsab Rinpoche and Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche. Indian Supreme Court Rejects Claim of Tsurphu Labrang, Clearing the Way for the Karmapa Charitable Trust to Regain Control of Rumtek Monastery.Today the court rejected a petition by the Tsurphu Labrang seeking legal sanction of its control over the disputed Tibetan monastery in India 's northeastern Sikkim state. The Tsurphu Labrang is the group set up by supporters of Karmapa contender Orgyen Trinley to promote his candidacy for the title of 17 th Karmapa, including his claim for jurisdiction over Rumtek. The group gained control of Rumtek in 1993 after removing the administration of the Karmapa Charitable Trust, which had been entrusted with the monastery's care by the previous title-holder, the late 16 th Karmapa.
To all the disciples who have great faith and devotion in His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpai Dorje, and followers of the Karma Kagyu tradition around the world, in both the east and west.  DHARMASALA, India - Karmapa Urgyen Trinley - also sometimes spelt as Orgyen Trinley - has a term for what is holding him back from taking up his seat as head of his Tibetan Buddhist lineage at Rumtek monastery in Sikkim - "environmental problems". Four years after the Tibetan lama hit the world headlines when he left his monastery in Tibet aiming for his "crown", he has hit a brick wall. Siliguri, Tuesday, December 02, 2003 (Sify) - The controversy surrounding the Rumtek monastery has deepened with a youth claiming that he is the "real incarnate" of the 16th Karmapa.  KATHMANDU - If you are a Buddhist you may want to try this, but you would be wise to exercise a degree of caution. Jump from an aircraft at 12,000 feet and adopt the Lotus position. Make sure you have a parachute on. Be aware, though, that when you sit in this meditation pose, you fall much faster than normal spread-eagled skydivers. New Delhi, Friday, December 19, 2003 (UNI) - The Delhi High Court issued summons to the Dalai Lama and the Central Government on a suit seeking as illegal the declaration of Urgyen - Trinlay Dorje as the 17th Karmapa and his expulsion from India.
Dear student of the precious Buddha Dharma. Previously I have remained quiet but now the teaching of the precious Buddha Dharma is in jeopardy I must speak up.
 While living at Rumtek monastery in Sikkim, Shamar Rinpoche received this prediction letter from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche late 1970's. High Court of Sikkim, 26th August 2003. On that day the Chief Justice R.K. Patra and Judge N. Surjamani Singh delivered judgement on the writ petition No. 5 of 2003 submitted by the socalled Tshurphu Labrang. The High Court of Sikkim : Gangtok.
 Enlightened Heart is pleased to confirm further details of His Eminence Beru Khyentse Rinpoche's visit to New Zealand in October 2003. Rinpoche has expressed that he is looking forward to His third visit to New Zealand.
SUNDAY TIMES, 5 JANUARY 2003 Why is one of the great spiritual leaders of Tibet still imprisoned in India? He is a virtual prisoner in India. But the Karmapa, one of Tibet's spiritual leaders, is working to free his people. Katharine Saunders reports Gaya, Tuesday, January 07, 2003 (UNI) - A youth trying to lob stones at the 17th Karmapa while he was on his way to perform prayers was nabbed by police before he could harm the spiritual leader of the Tibetans. The proximity between Gyngme Gyatso, an aide of Buddhist spiritual leader Karmapa who is in Bodh Gaya to attend Kalchakra Pooja, and a Chinese girl, Chen Yun Hann, has alerted state government agencies. "A Tibetan security man of the Karmapa (a prominent Tibetan leader) named Zigme Gyatso was found in mysterious circumstances with a young Chinese girl Chen Yuan Hann in a guest house," a district official said in Bodhgaya in the eastern state of Bihar. Hundreds of monks and followers gathered Wednesday to welcome the 17-year-old Tibetan high lama called the Karmapa on his arrival in this northern Indian town of Buddhist ruins.
Buddhist politics took the back seat at Lumbini in Nepal, the birth place of the Buddha, when the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje inaugurated the Drubgyud Choeling Monastery. Dispute over who is the genuine 17th Karmapa - Trinley Thaye, who lives in Sikkim, or Urgyen Trinley Dorje, who lives in Himachal Pradesh - was briefly forgotten as Buddhists stood for hours in queue to receive Trinley Thaye's blessings. At the age of 11, Trinley Thaye Dorje was officially recognised as Gyalwa Karmapa by Kunzig Shamarpa Rinpoche, the second highest lama in the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The controversy over the third highest lama, Situ Rinpoche, presenting Urgyen Trinley Dorje as Karmapa does not appear to have affected Trinley Thaye, though he would not like to discuss it. Confident and articulate, he says that people should recognise the real Karmapa by his deed. "I appeal to the Chinese government and the Tibetan Autonomous Region government that those arrested may be released quickly, and that they may be spared harsh treatment while in prison," the Karmapa told RFA's Tibetan service. "I am greatly disappointed and also worried," he said. "I escaped to pursue my religious studies, and not to achieve political goals." Gangtok, July 09, 2002 - The process of inventorisation of the wealth of Rumtek monastery in Sikkim, the headquarters of Karma Kagyu sect of Buddhism, suffered a setback on the second day on Tuesday as the key of the main treasure room could not be traced though counting of other monastery articles went on, official sources said. Rumtek: At least four items have been found to be missing so far and one of them given away to Ugyen Trinley Dorje from the articles of faith belonging to the Karmapa at the Rumtek Dharma Chakra's enthronement room. The work inside the main treasure room did not begin till the time of going to press because none of the parties involved could produce the key to the door of the room, bringing in another twist in the controversy. More than two years have passed since a 14-year-old monk from Tibet made his dramatic escape over the Himalayas to India and caught the imagination of the world. He was the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, one of Tibet's most important religious leaders. To me, a Tibetan born and brought up in exile in India, news of his escape came like a reviving gust of fresh air that blew away the cloud of confusion and inertia that seemed to have descended upon our decades-old freedom struggle. 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.
Susanna Cheung and Prakash Khanal trace the boy lama's escape route through the Himalayas (Susanna Cheung, a fellow with the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong, has reported on the Kosovo conflict and East Timor crisis. Kathmandu-based writer Prakash Khanal covers Himalayan environmental issues and is former editor with RONAST, The Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology.) This is a story as yet untold and a story that the West doesn't want to hear. For the first time -- and in a Sunday Review exclusive -- we reveal the details -- such as apparent American involvement -- about the mysterious flight of the 'living Buddha' Karmapa Lama from Tibet to India in January. SUSANNA CHEUNG CHUI-YUNG spent two weeks retracing the boy lama's dramatic journey through the Himalayas GANGTOK/KOLKATA: Does anyone but Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorjee have the right to touch the Vajra Mukut housed in the sacred Rumtek monastery? In an order on February 27, Sikkim district judge (east) S W Lepcha asked the RBI regional director to prepare the inventory of all valuables in the sacred monastery near Gangtok and submit a report to the court by April 29. VANCOUVER The Tibetan writer Jamyang Norbu was one minute into his coffee-shop speech on "The Myth of Tibet and Shangri-la" when a cell phone beeped and all eyes turned to a Tibetan in the audience rummaging through his clothes. "There goes another one" - Norbu quipped as the offender grinned in apology - "that we communicate telepathically." Gangtok -- The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of All Sikkim Buddhist Organization, demanding the ascension of boy monk, the 17th Karmapa Urgyen Thinley Dorjee to his "original seat" at Rumtek Monastery since 1992, has now hinted at a 'bigger mobilization' of people in the state if its demand was not met. More than two years have passed since a 14-year-old monk from Tibet made his dramatic escape over the Himalayas to India and caught the imagination of the world. He was the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, one of Tibet's most important religious leaders. To me, a Tibetan born and brought up in exile in India, news of his escape came like a reviving gust of fresh air that blew away the cloud of confusion and inertia that seemed to have descended upon our decades-old freedom struggle.
ADAMPOOL, East Sikkim: Police on Sunday halted the march to the Rumtek monastery by the third claimant to the title of the 17th Karmapa, Dawa Uangpo Dorjee, to avoid any law and order problem at the religious place. GAYA: Ugyen Trinle Dorje, the teenaged chief of the Karmapa sect of Tibetan Buddhists made a bare foot entry to the world famous Mahabodhi Temple, the seat of Buddha's enlightenment on Sunday morning. The bare foot entry makes special significance as the Tibetan Buddhists have been demanding the right to temple entry with boots on as per their traditions.
Eighteen months ago, Urgyen Trinley Dorge, the 16 year-old boy whom many Buddhists believe to be a reincarnation of Buddha, escaped from his native Tibet, to live in a monastery in the Indian mountains. The BBC's Carol Wightman, who gained exclusive access to him, reports: Video footage has come to light that shows a deep rift at the heart of Tibetan Buddhism, and rivalry that challenges the status of the Dalai Lama. We have reached a crossroads in our effort to preserve the authentic transmission of the Karma Kagyu lineage. The individuals behind the secret design to split and ultimately take over the Karma Kagyu lineage have today emerged at the forefront of the controversy. A couple of new photos have been added to the history of Namgyal Rinpoche in New Zealand. More words have been added to this section.
Beru Khyentse Rinpoche explains the guru yoga of the inseparability of the Lama Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo Rinpoche and Manjushri. April 27, 2001, Gyuto Ramoche Tantric University, Sidbhari, Distt. Kangra, HP, India Associated articles that appeared after the press conference Vijay Kranti, a senior journalist and an acknowledged expert on Tibetan affairs, dwells on the enigma called the KARMA PA in three articles. -- Editor, BORDER AFFAIRS, D-7, Press Enclave, Saket, New Delhi-110017. India New search engine installed and operating for the site A practice calendar that highlights certain days of each month that are particularly good for practice. Accompanying this is a visual display of the phases of the moon, for the current day and time
Check out the new awards Karma Thinley Rinpoche A short history of the contributions of Namgyal Rinpoche and his students to bringing the Buddha Dharma to New Zealand.
Asia Week - Hong Kong by Julian Gearing February 20, 2001 Poem for the Year of the Snake Raises controversy over wearing shoes in shrine
Given refugee status by Government of India Beru Khyentse Rinpoche By H.D.S. Greenway
Enlightened Heart is pleased to announce that further information has been added to our site, as described in our last email. This is the first of several sections that will focus on the development of the Karma Kagyu lineage in New Zealand.
Lha Bab Duchen, the anniversary of Lord Buddha returning from the deva realms after liberating his mother, who had reincarnated there, is the launch date for Enlightened Heart.
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