Thank you for your interest in Karmapa Center 16’s 40th Anniversary Event for His Holiness the 16th Karmapa’s Parinirvana. Although teachings and practices have concluded, recordings are available for viewing until December 5, 2021. Please register below if you would like to access the recorded teachings, The Lion’s Roar panel discussion and Q&A, or group Guru Yoga practice sessions (English [practice only], Chinese [practice with instruction]).

The 10-day-long tribute included teachings, pujas, and practices. We are grateful for teachings by Dilyak Drupon Rinpoche, Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, and Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. We are also delighted that His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche, His Eminence Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche and His Eminence Choeje Ayang Rinpoche shared recorded remarks via video.

Recorded teachings and group practice sessions are available for registered participants to view for 1 month after the Parinirvana Anniversary, until December 5, 2021.

• Registration
• Parinirvana Schedule
• The Lion’s Roar: Film Screening and Q&A
• Teaching Gifts and Lama Care

In commemoration of the 44th anniversary of the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje’s parinirvāṇa, Karmapa Center 16 will be offering our yearly pujas, prayers, and His Holiness’s Guru Yoga practice on Wednesday November 5, 2025. 

In addition, on Thursday November 6, we will practice the Namchö Dewachen sādhana—“The Recitation Manual for the Sādhana of Sukhāvatī from the Profound Cycle of the Whispered Lineage of the Heart-Treasure of the Namchö.” This Amitabha practice is especially relevant for our times. 

We warmly invite you to join us in these practices online (via Zoom) or onsite at KC16.

16th Gyalwang Karmapa Guru Yoga Teaching Retreat

In honor of the 44th Parinirvāṇa Anniversary we will also host our second 16th Gyalwang Karmapa Guru Yoga Teaching Retreat on November 1 and 2. This will be held online and onsite in Hong Kong with special teachings by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, His Eminence the 12th Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, and Dilyak Drupon Rinpoche. 

We hope you will be joining us to learn more about the inspiring life and teachings of the 16th Karmapa and instructions on elegantly concise and profound Guru Yoga Sadhana, “Rainfall of Nectar,”  composed by the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. Please note that this is a separate registration. 

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