The Bodhisattvacharyavatara, or Bodhicaryavatara for short, is often translated as The Way of the Bodhisattvas and is one of the most well-known Mahayana texts. It was composed around 700 CE by Shantideva (also called Bhusuku1), one of the Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas,
From the Buddhist point of view, the root causes for the current crisis are certain human faults – in particular greed -and, therefore, I believe that the solution to the challenges we are facing today equally lies within the mind, or the consciousness of each individual.
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These teachings were given in the middle of March 2008 at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI) in New Delhi, India. Following a two-month dharma-course with Professor Sempa Dorje and Khenpo Tsering, H.H. the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje gave teachings and empowerments for one week. The participants were the students from KIBI, two Bhutan pilgrimage groups that combined this visit with their pilgrimage, and many of Karmapa’s students from the West. Responding to a request from the editors of the German magazine Buddhismus Heute for a suitable teaching, Karmapa suggested that these teachings also be published in English in Buddhism Today.
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Social media, with its unparalleled power to instantly connect people across the globe, continues to play an increasingly significant role in the world today. Recently, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje invited his 140,000 Facebook followers to ask
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Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, is delighted to share the wonderful news that he has married in a private ceremony.
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H.H. the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje uses Facebook to communicate with people all around the world. His teachings are simple and yet profound. Here we print his comments on Facebook during the month of July 2016. See: https://www.facebook.com/17th.Karmapa/
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Friends, The Buddhist world has been cast into darkness. Tibetan Buddhism has lost, in this life, one of its greatest torchbearers and masters, His Holiness Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche. The Karma Kagyu tradition has lost a supreme leader, and one of
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This interview was conducted by Lalita Panicker of the Hindustan Times (India) on December 11, 2012.
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We present here two blog entries by H.H. the 17th Karmapa. They are from June 2012 and were originally published on the Huffington Post at huffingtonpost.co.uk.
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This interview was given by the 17th Karmapa to Monolit Magazine in Moscow during his historic visit to Russia in March 2009.
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