The authors of this essay, as well as the photographers for the pictures here, started the Karmapa’s Healthcare Project in 2005. The goal of this work is to improve healthcare for his monks and nuns in northern India and Nepal. All the work done is voluntary.
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Recently, at the Marpa course in New York, Lama Ole was asked how one can recover from painful feelings of loss and sadness. Lama Ole responded by saying how if he was a psychologist, he would just tell people jokes
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Dr. Pemberton is the author of The Buddha Meets Socrates, the journal of an American professor who traveled to the Himalayan foothills of India to become the private tutor of one the highest lamas in Tibetan Buddhism, the young 17th Karmapa. Seeing Western and Eastern ways of thought in contrast sharpened both of them, and the actual encounter opened a promising new perspective. It is published by Xlibris books.
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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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This is the second of a three-part series in which H.H. the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje offers his commentary on this ancient text.
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