In this new video clip from Day One teaching on Yangonpa's Seven Pointing Outs for the Kagyu Winter Dharma event (Guncho) in January 2024, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje explains what is meant by transmission (Tibetan: lung) and why and how reading transmissions were done during and after the Buddha's time in the… Continue reading The meaning and purpose of ‘oral transmission’ (lung) in Buddhism (teaching by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje)
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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
"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