Lama Ole Nydahl’s new book, Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying, is scheduled to appear in print in January 2013. Check http://www.fearlessdeathbook.com for updated information. What follows here comprises Chapter 6 of that book.
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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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The historical Buddha Shakyamuni had disciples with varying capacities for comprehending his teachings. Although he actually taught one single way to enlightenment, different parts of his teachings were taken as vehicles according to the capacities of his disciples. Basically, one can subdivide all of the Buddha’s teachings into the two vehicles of Sutra and Tantra. Sutra is also called “the causal vehicle,” because here one builds up the causes for enlightenment. In Tantra, “the vehicle of fruition,” one identifies with the fruit, or the different aspects of enlightenment.
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In late December 2011 Jigme Rinpoche gave a talk at the Diamond Way Buddhist Center in Hamburg, Germany. He spoke about his experiences of being near the 16th Karmapa for many years. The following is the final segment of a text that emerged from this talk. Part 1, “The Karmapa’s Clarity and Awareness,” appeared in the previous issue of Buddhism Today.
The text that follows is an edited compilation of interviews that took place in June 2012 at the Europe Center at the International Traveling Teachers meeting.
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2012 marks the fortieth year in which Lama Ole Nydahl has been teaching and working for the growth of Buddhism in the West. His wife Hannah accompanied him all these years, until her untimely death in 2007. He spent these forty years as a lay person, a yogi, and a lama.
After the Karmapa, Shamar Rinpoche is the highest lama in the Karma Kagyu lineage and is responsible for holding the Karma Kagyu lineage from when the Karmapa dies until he is reborn.
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