༧རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་བཅུ་དྲུག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྗེས་དྲན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བསྟི་གནས།
མདུན་ངོས། ༧རྒྱལ་དབང་མཆོག་གི་བཀའ་སློབ། མཆོད་རྟེན། ལོ་རྒྱུས། ཆོས་ཚོགས། དྲ་བརྙན། སྐུ་པར་ཁག ཡིག་ཚང་། གསལ་བསྒྲགས།
Announcing the
43rd Parinirvana Anniversary of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa
In commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje’s parinirvāṇa, Karmapa Center 16 will be offering our yearly pujas and prayers on November 5, 2023.
We warmly invite you to attend the special practice via Zoom or onsite at KC16. Under the guidance of our resident teacher, Acharya Lhakpa Tshering, the pujas will be performed in Tibetan. Upon registration (link below), the Zoom link will be sent. If you would like to join us onsite, please make sure you indicate this on the registration form.
We also rejoice in sharing with you that a special Gyalwang Karmapa Guru Yoga Teaching Retreat will be held in honor of the 43rd Parinirvāṇa Anniversary in Taiwan and online with special teachings by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, and Dilyak Drupon Rinpoche.
Karmapa Center 16’s mission is to commemorate His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa with a stupa, memorial, meditation hall, retreat center, and place to learn and study about the history of Buddhism and the Karma Kagyu lineage. This center will be in close proximity to the place of his passing, or parinirvana, and offer the opportunity for any interested visitors to pay respects, conduct pilgrimage, meditate, visit and learn.
I will always exert myself in dharmic recitations, proclamations, and readings.
In mind, I will not flutter back and forth like a young bird on a branch. Not getting absorbed in discursive thoughts of good and bad, I will meditate, cultivating forbearance and relying on my own perceptions, not those of others. I will reflect on how best to benefit the teachings and beings.
In particular, the vital essence of the thought of all victorious ones is the true nature—the uncontrived, innate dharmakaya. Without ever lapsing, I will sustain it with one taste in equipoise and post-meditation.
an excerpt from Heart Advice of the Karmapa, translated by Tyler Dewar
