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THE FORTHCOMING SELLING OF “PRICELESS” BUDDHIST TREASURES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER IN HONG KONG: Ancient Indian and Nepalese Buddhist statues, 10th Karmapa rare 17th Century paintings and more (whose lineage into private collectors’ ownership is not clear) being sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction house on 3 November 2025

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“Regarding poetry and painting there is none greater than me in Tibet. I am one who pleases . I am one who has come into this world to paint.”--10th Karmapa, Choying Dorje [1] “Superior to all of these [was] the Lord of the World practicing art, the glorious Karmapa Choying Dorje. This individual studied painting with… Continue reading THE FORTHCOMING SELLING OF “PRICELESS” BUDDHIST TREASURES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER IN HONG KONG: Ancient Indian and Nepalese Buddhist statues, 10th Karmapa rare 17th Century paintings and more (whose lineage into private collectors’ ownership is not clear) being sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction house on 3 November 2025

‘EXPANDING SMILE OF A FEROCIOUS TIGER’ LOSAR GREETINGS BY 17th KARMAPA and NEW ARTWORK

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Original artwork and Losar 2149 Verse by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, see here: https://kagyuoffice.org/losar-tashi-delek/ 'ཚེ་ནོར་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རླབས་ཕྲེང་འཕྲོ་བའི། །May life, wealth and resources flow wave after wave!བསོད་ནམས་ཆུ་བོ་དྲག་ཏུ་བབས་པའི་ངོགས། །Merit descend like a slope’s rapid current!དབང་ཐང་ འཛུམ་དྲུག་རྒྱས་པའི་དམར་ཡག་སྟག །Power and dominion expand like the smile* of a ferocious tiger!དེང་འདིར་ཁྱོད་ཀྱི་གྲོགས་སུ་རྩེན་གྱུར་ཅིག ། །Right here and now, may you become a frolicking playmate! For… Continue reading ‘EXPANDING SMILE OF A FEROCIOUS TIGER’ LOSAR GREETINGS BY 17th KARMAPA and NEW ARTWORK