The 15th Karmapa Khakyab Dorje (1871-1922) had several consorts and two sons who were the rebirths of great masters (Tib. tulkus). To date, there has been very little published about them in Western languages, and what exists is contradictory and
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Here, we explore the great life of the Mahamudra master, Lama Shang.
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In August 2016, Lopon Dorji Rinchen, one of the highest lamas of Bhutan, came to Europe for the first time at the invitation of Lama Ole Nydahl, Jigme Rinpoche, and Maggi Lehnert-Kossowski. At the summer course in the Europe Center
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What appears here is Part I of an article that appeared in the German magazine Buddhismus Heute. It is a summary of information from existing sources, which are cited at the end of this article. Part II will appear in the next issue of Buddhism Today. Manfred Seegers and Jim Rheingans were consultants for this project. Translation by Bruce Underhill.
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Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche had just finished giving a course during the first weekend of June, with over four hundred participants, when, on June 11, 2014, sitting at breakfast in the Bodhi Path Center in Renchen-Ulm, he suffered a heart attack.
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Starting a regular meditation practice means a change in your daily routine. Weaving a short meditation into everyday life is relatively easy, but completing the Foundational Practices of the Great Seal (Tib. Ngondro) will be more demanding and requires more
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“Although truth-nature is all-pervading like space, places and objects may hold energy-fields, which can alter beings’ level of consciousness. As the Buddha’s only goal was to remove the illusions of beings, all places he graced with his enlightening wisdom are exceedingly powerful.”
Lama Ole Nydahl
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