RADIANT COMPASSION THE LIFE OF THE 16TH GYALWA KARMAPA
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Tireless Dharma activity despite escalating violence
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Construction of the Rumtek Monastery
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Who's the Karmapa?
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Sickness and Parirvana
Visit in Rumtek 1965
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During the Construction of the Rumtek Monastery
Before beginning construction, Karmapa blessed the ground of the new monastery by practicing the yidam* Cakrasaṃvara (Khorlo Demchok) for one week. On January 17, 1963, the groundbreaking for the monastery started. Huge masses of earth needed to be moved in the hilly surroundings. Monks and laypeople promised to finish the task as quickly as they could and worked ten hours a day, regardless of the weather—terribly hot or freezing cold.
Lama Tönsang remembers:
"Karmapa said we first had to cut the trees and prepare the foundation. We worked the earth to prepare platforms and the basis. We were a team of forty to eighty people to achieve that task.
We had to dig huge amounts of earth and rock from the mountain to create a flat horizontal platform for a five-story building. At that time we were working only with our bare hands because there were no machines. Only from time to time we used some explosives to get the hole completed.
Once Karmapa sent a monk to warn us of a danger: the earth and rocks could slide. So, we chose an observer who would watch to see if there was a landslide or rocks and earth falling down. He was watching while we continued working. At one point some earth did slide. It wasn’t much, but enough to bury somebody. We ran away and checked to see if somebody might be missing. We could not find one monk, Tenzin Gyurme,
[1]
who was just beside us before. We removed the earth very quickly and carefully, taking care not to hit his head. Together we cleared away the earth and discovered something red. He was buried! We were able to get him out and he just recited very weakly “Karmapa Khyenno.”
[2]
He was completely alright with nothing broken. After one week he was up and about again."
© From: Gerd Bausch: Radiant Compassion. The Life of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, www.edition-karuna.de. Please feel free to share the extract, but give the source and the weblink. Many thanks!
[1]
Tenzin Gyurme later became Karmapa’s representative in the United States.
[2]
A mantra which invokes the activity and blessing of the Karmapa (See chapter on this subject in Volume 2).
A book about HH the 16th Karmapa's life
Presentation of the book about HH the 16th Karmapa
>
Interviews
background informations
Extracts from Radiant Compassion
Table of Contents
prefaces and introduction
Foretaste of Chapter One
>
enthronement
Lama Tönsang about Tsurphu
Tireless Dharma activity despite escalating violence
Garchen
Foretaste of Chaper Two: Travel to Nepal, Bhutan and India
>
Construction of the Rumtek Monastery
travels
Minor Obstacles Abroad
The First Western Students
The 16th Karmapa in the USA 1974
Short Biography of HH the 16th Karmapa
Who's the Karmapa?
Texts about HH the 16th Karmapa
Sickness and Parirvana
Visit in Rumtek 1965
Vajrasongs
Spontaneous Vajrasong at the Ground Breaking Ceremony of the Shri Nalanda Shedra in Rumtek
Words of His Holiness
Prophecies
Videos
background
rumtek shedra
>
additional information
>
dates
risks
bibliography
mistakes and modifications
links
about the author
contact, disclaimer, copyright
Dana - Donations
Acknowledgements
Feedback and Reviews
Disclaimer
Volume Two
extracts of volume two
>
Laying of the Foundation Stone of the KIBI
Steve Roth Supreme Lord of Compassion
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Bookorders Volume One and Two
Contact