This month (April 2023) the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje cancelled several teachings at short notice due to sickness and cited there being obstacles to his health and activities. He mentioned how before teachings he could hardly breathe and that: "Whenever I am about to teach, I don't feel good. The other day I was… Continue reading NEW VIDEO: CHANTS FOR AVERTING OBSTACLES. Heart Sutra and 21 Taras chanted by 17th Karmapa for removing obstacles to his health, travel, activities and teaching
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17th Gyalwang Karmapa on the five-deity Tārā practice of 1st Karmapa, new ritual text and closing speech for the Special Kagyu Monlam 2023(February 2022)
"Gods and Asuras with their crownsbow down at your lotus feet.To the one who liberates the destituteMother Tārā I prostrate and praise! ལྷ་དང་ལྷ་མིན་ཅོད་པན་གྱིས།ཞབས་ཀྱི་པད་མོ་ལ་བཏུད་དེ།ཕོངས་པ་ཀུན་ལས་སྒྲོལ་མཛད་མ།སྒྲོལ་མ་ཡུམ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བསྟོད།" --excerpt from the new long ritual for the five-deity Tārā "The previous Bokar Rinpoche, wherever he went he always brought the statue of Tarā with him. When I met him, it seemed… Continue reading 17th Gyalwang Karmapa on the five-deity Tārā practice of 1st Karmapa, new ritual text and closing speech for the Special Kagyu Monlam 2023(February 2022)
GREEN TĀRĀ OF THE ACACIA FOREST (Sengdeng Nagki) AND THE FIVE-DEITY TĀRĀ PRACTICE OF FIRST KARMAPA : Overview of the Green Tārā origin and lineage and new translation of Five-Deity Tārā short practice from 1st Karmapa’s ‘Five sets of Five’, and transcribed teachings on Green Tārā by 17th Karmapa
"Many desire enlightenment in a man’s body, while not even a single [person] strives for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman’s body. Therefore, I shall work for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman’s form as long as saṃsāra has not been emptied." --Noble Tārā's statement (as Princess Jñānacandrā) to sexist monks… Continue reading GREEN TĀRĀ OF THE ACACIA FOREST (Sengdeng Nagki) AND THE FIVE-DEITY TĀRĀ PRACTICE OF FIRST KARMAPA : Overview of the Green Tārā origin and lineage and new translation of Five-Deity Tārā short practice from 1st Karmapa’s ‘Five sets of Five’, and transcribed teachings on Green Tārā by 17th Karmapa
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