STATEMENT FROM HIS HOLINESS THE 17TH KARMAPA OGYEN TRINLEY DORJE, ON TIGER PROTECTION IN THE YEAR OF THE TIGER February 14th, 2010 Varanasi, India Buddhism teaches equanimity. We have to show compassion to all sentient beings. All life is equally sacred. Lord Buddha himself in a previous life gave his body to feed a hungry tigress....
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Karmapa calls for Tiger Protection at the start of the Year of the Tiger
Posted on February 14th, 2010, by Dekila
Posted in: News from the Karmapa.
THE STORY OF TAGMO LÜJIN
Posted on February 13th, 2010, by Karma Gendun
THE STORY OF TAGMO LÜJIN; WHERE THE FUTURE BUDDHA SACRIFICED HIS BODY TO A TIGRESS Taken from the Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish One of the supreme sacred sites for Buddhism is Tagmo Lüjin (literally, the place where the future Buddha sacrificed his body to a tigress), in Nepal. It is a sacred place where our teacher, the...
Posted in: Monastery Updates, Thrangu Tashi Choling.
World Environment Day from Tsurphu Labrang
Posted on June 7th, 2009, by Dekila
World Environment Day, June 5th 2009 For World Environment Day, His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa led a tree planting ceremony on the grounds of Gyuto Tantric University, His Holiness’s temporary home near Dharamsala. Accompanied by the Abbot of Gyuto and other senior Gyuto monks, Gyalwang Karmapa supervised the planting of ten...

