Save the Dates! Venerable Master Hai Tao at KC16

Join us on Friday, July 22 for a very special occasion—a visit to The Karmapa Center 16 by the Venerable Master Hai Tao!

法師近照-MasterHaiTaoAbout the Venerable Master Hai Tao

Vowing to save the sentient beings from suffering rather than seeking personal happiness” is the code of conduct for the Venerable Master Hai Tao. The Venerable Master Hai Tao is the founder of Compassion for Life Organization. He first became a monk in 1993 after visiting Huei-Rhi Lecture Hall in Taipei; an experience in which he was touched by the Buddha statue’s low brows and gracious eyes”; as well as the relaxing manner of the monks. Upon deeper studying of Buddha Dharma he really appreciated the profound Buddhist philosophy on life. The ideals of the humanistic school of Buddhism of Master Yin-Shun is also a source of great inspiration and the reason for Venerable Hai Tao turning monk. More about the Venerable Master Hai Tao here: www.lifetv.org.tw/master_E.htm.

Please see the tentative schedule of events below. Further information and details about how to register/attend will be announced soon.

DAY TIME ACTIVITY DETAILS
Thursday, July 21 15:42 Flight Arrives Arrival
Friday, July 22 Morning Tea & Rice Welcome for Venerable Master Hai Tao
Fire Puja with Smoke Offering at The Karmapa Center 16 Fire Puja Offering to the Three Jewels, Dieties and Protectors. Giving to the lower realms and hungry ghosts.
Life Release Near-by sanghas are invited to participate.
Lunch for main guests
Tea & Snacks for participants
Afternoon Possible visit to Cancer Center
Saturday, July 23 14:22 Flight Departs Departure

Stupa Land Successfully Purchased!

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The Karmapa Center 16 is pleased to announce that at the end of May we successfully purchased the beautiful 10-acre prairie land, farmhouse and outbuildings in Wadsworth, Illinois! Blessed by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, the future site of the parinirvana stupa dedicated to His Holiness the 16th Karmapa is one major step closer to fruition.

Sincere thanks to all of you whose incredible generosity enabled the second challenge grant success thereby achieving the funding goal for the land purchase. Phase One of the three-phase project is now complete. How marvelous and auspicious!

Commemoration of the 16th Karmapa at Kagyu Monlam

2/14/2016 — Bodh Gaya, India.

On February 14, 2016, the seventh day of the first month of the Tibetan Year of the Fire Monkey, H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa presided over a commemoration ceremony honoring the life and enlightened activity of H.H. the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, at the 33rd Kagyu Monlam Chenmo.

The Chief Guest at the commemoration, occurring in what would have been the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa’s ninety-second year, was H.H. the Drikung Kyabgön Chetsang, Konchog Tenzin Kunsang Thrinle Lhundrup.

The morning program included the unveiling of a new printing of the Jang Kangyur, the Collected Works of Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, and a pictorial biography of the 16th Karmapa titled Dharma King: The Life of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa in Images. The afternoon featured the Guru Yoga of the Sixteenth Karmapa and a ganachakra.

Commemoration Ceremony

Guru Yoga Practice

Happy Losar 2016, Year of the Fire Monkey

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༄༅།། མེ་སྤྲེལ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་དུ་བཞད་
པའི་དགའ་སྟོན་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།
ལོ་གསར་པའི་ནང་སྐུ་གཟུགས་བདེ་ཐང་བྱ་བ་
རྣམས་ཡིད་བཞིན་འགྲུབ་པའི་སྨོན་འདུན་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་ཡི།

 

Wishing you auspicious and happy celebrations for the New Year of the Fire Monkey. May this year bring you good health, accomplishments in your activities, and may all your wishes come true.

 

親愛的各地朋友與道友們,

喜樂的猴年來臨之際,在此獻上滿滿的新年祝願!此外,對於慷慨協助第十六世大寶法王紀念中心之興建的功德主與義工們,我也由衷感恩大家的大力護持!

祈願大家修持猛進、喜樂充滿,世願所求如意順遂,祈願您新的來年富足豐饒、平安健康。

迪雅竹奔仁波切 敬筆
西元2016年2月6日