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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

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"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

LADAKH TRILOGY (PART I): THE KARMAPAS IN LADAKH. Previous visits and the Karma Drubgyu Monastery

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  For Dakini Day today, am offering a new research piece and photographs of the Karma Kagyu monastery in Ladakh, called Karma Drubgyu Choling, on the outskirts of Leh. Not to be mistaken for the Karma Drubgyu Tharling (Tilokpur) nunnery, located in Himachal Pradesh, India, as I have written about here. I am currently on… Continue reading LADAKH TRILOGY (PART I): THE KARMAPAS IN LADAKH. Previous visits and the Karma Drubgyu Monastery