A BIRTHDAY PRAISE AND A BLESSED REUNION OF TWO RED-HAT ‘HEART SONS’. 71st Birthday poem to Kenting Tai Situpa by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, and historic meeting after many years of Tai Situpa and Gyeltsab Rinpoche and visit to Sikkim

May the cooling camphor droplets of benefit and well-being drip down, and སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཚ་གདུང་མ་ལུས་རབ་འཇིལ་བའི། ། Eliminate completely without exception heated suffering, སྔོན་མེད་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བསིལ་ངད་ཀྱིས། ། May the cooling of the unprecedented sacred Dharma, ལན་གཅིག་མིན་པར་འགྲོ་རྣམས་བརླན་པར་མཛོད། ། making all beings moist, not only once! --Lines from the 17th Karmapa's new praise to 12th Tai Situpa (February 2024) On the 17th… Continue reading A BIRTHDAY PRAISE AND A BLESSED REUNION OF TWO RED-HAT ‘HEART SONS’. 71st Birthday poem to Kenting Tai Situpa by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, and historic meeting after many years of Tai Situpa and Gyeltsab Rinpoche and visit to Sikkim

THE KARMAPAS, TAI SITUPAS AND THE SIX MAIN HEART-SONS: Closing Speech of the 38th Kagyu Monlam by 17th Karmapa (Summary and transcript)

"In brief, the various incarnations of the Situ Rinpoche are one of the earliest lines of tulkus in Tibetan history. Among the Karmapas' heart sons, after the Zhamarpa, the next one is Tai Situpa." "In general , when we talk about the Karmapa and their heart sons, they are very important it is not necessary… Continue reading THE KARMAPAS, TAI SITUPAS AND THE SIX MAIN HEART-SONS: Closing Speech of the 38th Kagyu Monlam by 17th Karmapa (Summary and transcript)

"In India and Tibet, wherever the Karmapas were born, the incarnations of his heart-disciples also appeared and served the Karmapas through the three ways of pleasing the guru until their minds became inseparable from the guru's enlightened mind. To symbolise this inseparability, various Karmapas bestowed red crowns that liberate on seeing, upon past incarnations of… Continue reading THE KAGYU ‘RED CROWN THAT LIBERATES ON SEEING’: The black and red crowns of Karma Kagyu by 1st Jamgon Kongtrul and 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche’s historic ‘red crown’ ceremony in Bodh Gaya, January 2024 (with transcript of teaching by Mingyur and Gyalton Rinpoches)

"Then during the time of the 10th Karmapa, there was the Mongolian invasion and when the Mongolians came, there was a lot of destruction of not just the Kagyu but also the Jonang, the Bonpos and different lineages. The 'worst hit' was the Kagyu and among them the Karma Kamtsang and the Drugpa Kagyu. Especially… Continue reading THE KAGYUPA ‘EYE OF THE TIGER’: Blazing the way of high-level studies, debate and original research, the inimitable and incomparable Karma Kagyu Winter event (Guncho) and the forthcoming Kagyu Monlam with the ‘red crown’ ceremony of 12th Tai Situpa