"This is not a question of more or less important. Even if you are a householder, you can have qualities of purity and realization that are superior to a monastic’s, and a monastic can have qualities of purity and realization that are superior to a householder’s. This is not a question of more or less… Continue reading UPDATE AND ACTION: ‘unofficial’ Karmapa claimant, Thaye Dorje’s Monlam in Bodh Gaya, Sri Lankan President visit to Bodh Gaya, and the 17th Karmapa’s advice on the importance of lay householders not wearing monastic-type dress