Radiant Compassion
The Life of HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa
Volume 1
Background information.
The respective links are inserted in the respective chapters and paragraphs.
Prefaces by His Holiness 41st Sakya Trizin, Beru Khyentse Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Introduction
Who is Karmapa?
PART I: Biography of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa
Chapter 1: In Tibet
The years 1924-1936The Birth of a Buddha
Pictures and discriptions of the Athub Palace, where the 16th Karmapa was born:
http://travel-tibet.org/the-house-of-karmapa-xvi-in-eastern-tibet/
http://travel-tibet.org/palace-athub-the-house-of-16th-karmapa/
– Search for the Prophecy Letter – Message in Dākinī Language – The First Enthronement at Palpung – Arrival in Central Tibet – Enthronement and First Education in Tsurphu
Visit to Kham 1936-1940King of the Snakes and Other Miracles
More miracles of the late Karmapa:
http://rinpoche.com/stories/krmpamiracles.htm
– Further training… – Visions, Prophecies …
In Tsurphu 1941-1944Transmissions and practice years –Tsurphu, Seat of the KarmapasDr. Alexander Berzin: Kagyu Monasteries: Tsurpu, https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/monasteries-in-tibet/kagyu-monasteries-tsurpu
The years 1945-1950 The time of travels – Good Connection with Bhutan –
Visits to Nepal, Sikkim and India – Visiting a Great Yogīnī
Hannah Havnevik: The Life of Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/relkultur27-11.pdf
– Further education in Tsurphu – Highest Realization of How Things Really Are
The last decade in TibetChinese invasion – Death of his Root Lamas – Journey to China – On Diplomatic Mission to Kham – Looking into the Future – The Dalai Lama Visits Tsurphu – Pilgrimage on the 2500th Anniversary of the Buddha – Tireless Dharma Activity in Spite of Escalating Violence
Taking leave of Tibet – Last Step into ExileChapter 2: Beginning Anew in ExileThe years 1959-1970 http://keithdowman.net/essays/tibetan-diaspora.html
New Seat in Sikkim –Travels to Nepal, Bhutan and India – Construction of the Rumtek Monastery – Life in the New Monastery – Establishing the Practice, the Vinaya and the Transmission – Karmapa’s ceaseless activity – Karmapa and the People of Sikkim – Travels to India, Ladakh, Bhutan and Nepal
The years 1971-1974: On Pilgrimage through India – Enthronement of the new Bhutanese king – The First Western Buddhist students – Karmapa prepares the Propagation of the Dharma in the West
Chögyam Trungpas Journey to Bhutan:
https://www.chronicleproject.com/historical-comments-on-the-sadhana-of-mahamudra/
https://www.chronicleproject.com/journey-to-taktsang/
Including the account of Trungpa reading Erich Fromm
https://www.chronicleproject.com/kunga-dawa-chogyam-trungpa-sadhana-mahamudra/
https://www.shambhala.com/story-sadhana-mahamudra/
Chapter 3: When the iron bird fliesKarmapa’s First Journey to the WestThe First Visit to North AmericaArrival in New York – Trungpa Rinpoche’s Sangha and the Karmapa’s Visit – Visit in Boulder
https://www.chronicleproject.com/1974-seminary/
– Journey through Colorado and the Canyons – Visit to the Hopi – California – Canada – How the Gyalwa Karmapa changed America
Europe United Kingdom – Marvelous Welcome in Scandinavia – Denmark – Travels through Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium – Paris –Audience with the Pope – Idyll in the French countryside – Cradle of European Buddhism – Nothing was as before…
PART II Encounters with the 16th Gyalwa KarmapaHis Holiness the Dalai Lama: My friendship with the Sixteenth Karmapa**His Holiness Sakya Trizin: “He was very kind and compassionate”Lama Gendün Rinpoche: “He is a Buddha, not an ordinary human being”**Beru Khyentse Rinpoche: “Among the Karmapas, the 16th was particularly great”Jigme Rinpoche: “He was one with everything”**Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche: “Everybody has the responsibility to take care of sentient beings”Lama Tönsang: In Tsurphu with the 16th KarmapaAni Mingyur: The nuns of TsurphuDzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche: Upholder of the LineageLama Tsültrim Namgyal: “My life with the 16th Karmapa”Trinle Densapa: Karmapa in SikkimLaxmi Prova Kansakar: Karmapa in NepalArnaud Desjardins: “The teaching was simply to see him”Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo: “It was an incredible time”Lama Ole Nydahl: “He was completely enlightened and incredibly powerful”Lama Tsültrim Allione: “The devotion I felt for him I never felt for anyone else”Matthieu Ricard: Embodiment of CompassionWilliam Stucky: Karmapa’s Meeting with Swami MuktanandaAchi Tsepal: Karmapa in Bhutan and the United StatesKevin Lyons: Knower of the Three Times**John Seonaidh Perks ‘They just spontaneously began to glow’Joseph Duane: Even today I can immediately connect to the situationLama Jampa Thaye: “The definitive proof what the Dharma life brings about”Mary Finnigan: Karmapa transforms a London squatKarma Palden Thargye: Karmapa’s first visit to ScandinaviaNaomi Schmidt: He really enjoyed the spontaneityGeorgina and Etienne de Swarte: “What do we risk with the Karmapa?”
The Life of HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa
Volume 1
Background information.
The respective links are inserted in the respective chapters and paragraphs.
Prefaces by His Holiness 41st Sakya Trizin, Beru Khyentse Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Introduction
Who is Karmapa?
PART I: Biography of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa
Chapter 1: In Tibet
The years 1924-1936The Birth of a Buddha
Pictures and discriptions of the Athub Palace, where the 16th Karmapa was born:
http://travel-tibet.org/the-house-of-karmapa-xvi-in-eastern-tibet/
http://travel-tibet.org/palace-athub-the-house-of-16th-karmapa/
– Search for the Prophecy Letter – Message in Dākinī Language – The First Enthronement at Palpung – Arrival in Central Tibet – Enthronement and First Education in Tsurphu
Visit to Kham 1936-1940King of the Snakes and Other Miracles
More miracles of the late Karmapa:
http://rinpoche.com/stories/krmpamiracles.htm
– Further training… – Visions, Prophecies …
In Tsurphu 1941-1944Transmissions and practice years –Tsurphu, Seat of the KarmapasDr. Alexander Berzin: Kagyu Monasteries: Tsurpu, https://studybuddhism.com/en/advanced-studies/history-culture/monasteries-in-tibet/kagyu-monasteries-tsurpu
The years 1945-1950 The time of travels – Good Connection with Bhutan –
Visits to Nepal, Sikkim and India – Visiting a Great Yogīnī
Hannah Havnevik: The Life of Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/relkultur27-11.pdf
– Further education in Tsurphu – Highest Realization of How Things Really Are
The last decade in TibetChinese invasion – Death of his Root Lamas – Journey to China – On Diplomatic Mission to Kham – Looking into the Future – The Dalai Lama Visits Tsurphu – Pilgrimage on the 2500th Anniversary of the Buddha – Tireless Dharma Activity in Spite of Escalating Violence
Taking leave of Tibet – Last Step into ExileChapter 2: Beginning Anew in ExileThe years 1959-1970 http://keithdowman.net/essays/tibetan-diaspora.html
New Seat in Sikkim –Travels to Nepal, Bhutan and India – Construction of the Rumtek Monastery – Life in the New Monastery – Establishing the Practice, the Vinaya and the Transmission – Karmapa’s ceaseless activity – Karmapa and the People of Sikkim – Travels to India, Ladakh, Bhutan and Nepal
The years 1971-1974: On Pilgrimage through India – Enthronement of the new Bhutanese king – The First Western Buddhist students – Karmapa prepares the Propagation of the Dharma in the West
Chögyam Trungpas Journey to Bhutan:
https://www.chronicleproject.com/historical-comments-on-the-sadhana-of-mahamudra/
https://www.chronicleproject.com/journey-to-taktsang/
Including the account of Trungpa reading Erich Fromm
https://www.chronicleproject.com/kunga-dawa-chogyam-trungpa-sadhana-mahamudra/
https://www.shambhala.com/story-sadhana-mahamudra/
Chapter 3: When the iron bird fliesKarmapa’s First Journey to the WestThe First Visit to North AmericaArrival in New York – Trungpa Rinpoche’s Sangha and the Karmapa’s Visit – Visit in Boulder
https://www.chronicleproject.com/1974-seminary/
– Journey through Colorado and the Canyons – Visit to the Hopi – California – Canada – How the Gyalwa Karmapa changed America
Europe United Kingdom – Marvelous Welcome in Scandinavia – Denmark – Travels through Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium – Paris –Audience with the Pope – Idyll in the French countryside – Cradle of European Buddhism – Nothing was as before…
PART II Encounters with the 16th Gyalwa KarmapaHis Holiness the Dalai Lama: My friendship with the Sixteenth Karmapa**His Holiness Sakya Trizin: “He was very kind and compassionate”Lama Gendün Rinpoche: “He is a Buddha, not an ordinary human being”**Beru Khyentse Rinpoche: “Among the Karmapas, the 16th was particularly great”Jigme Rinpoche: “He was one with everything”**Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche: “Everybody has the responsibility to take care of sentient beings”Lama Tönsang: In Tsurphu with the 16th KarmapaAni Mingyur: The nuns of TsurphuDzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche: Upholder of the LineageLama Tsültrim Namgyal: “My life with the 16th Karmapa”Trinle Densapa: Karmapa in SikkimLaxmi Prova Kansakar: Karmapa in NepalArnaud Desjardins: “The teaching was simply to see him”Jetsünma Tenzin Palmo: “It was an incredible time”Lama Ole Nydahl: “He was completely enlightened and incredibly powerful”Lama Tsültrim Allione: “The devotion I felt for him I never felt for anyone else”Matthieu Ricard: Embodiment of CompassionWilliam Stucky: Karmapa’s Meeting with Swami MuktanandaAchi Tsepal: Karmapa in Bhutan and the United StatesKevin Lyons: Knower of the Three Times**John Seonaidh Perks ‘They just spontaneously began to glow’Joseph Duane: Even today I can immediately connect to the situationLama Jampa Thaye: “The definitive proof what the Dharma life brings about”Mary Finnigan: Karmapa transforms a London squatKarma Palden Thargye: Karmapa’s first visit to ScandinaviaNaomi Schmidt: He really enjoyed the spontaneityGeorgina and Etienne de Swarte: “What do we risk with the Karmapa?”
