Karmapa London 2005 interfaith Event (photo copyright Thule G. Jug)
In eager anticipation of the fourth visit to the UK of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, we reflect on his first momentous visit in 2005. Here we reproduce a report from the press at the time, it can also be found here.
From May 28 to June 3 this year, Diamond Way Buddhism will be hosting in Lambeth, London an exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist Art. The exhibition is entitled ‘Space for Mind, Space for Art: treasures of Tibetan Buddhism, and contemporary responses’. The website for the event is www.spaceforart.org.uk.
17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje (Photo: Matt Balara)
Today, May 6 2012, is the 29th Birthday of H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, as well as being a “super moon” in some parts of the world. We wish him a long life and much success in his activity worldwide in teaching the Dharma for the benefit of all beings, and look forward very much to his forthcoming visit to the UK in July.
Hannah Nydahl, Leverkusen 2005
Hannah Nydahl, together with her husband Lama Ole became the first Western students of H.H. the 16th Karmapa in 1969. A qualified Buddhist teacher in her own right, she worked alongside Lama Ole from the early 1970s up to her death in 2007 to establish Diamond Way Buddhism around the world. A movie about her remarkable life and activity is currently in production. This interview was made with Hannah in 1995 and was published in the magazine Kagyu Life International. It addresses her own views about the development of Buddhism in the West and her unique role.
A glimpse at the film being made about the life of Hannah Nydahl – a Buddhist pioneer who with her husband Lama Ole Nydahl from 1972 helped to bring Buddhism to the West. The whole film will be available later in the year.
New Delhi, 1 April 2012: H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje guides a meditation in the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute.
Tenga Rinpoche (1932-2012)
On March 30, 2012 at 3:24 am Nepali Time, the great and noble teacher Venerable Tenga Rinpoche passed away and entered his ultimate meditation of “thug dam” at his monastery in Kathmandu at the age of 80. Tenga Rinpoche was the Dorje Lopon – tantric master – of Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim and accompanied Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the great 16th Karmapa, on several of his world tours. In 1979, the year he stayed in Denmark at the Copenhagen Diamond Way Buddhist Centre, he benefitted our growing Diamond Way Buddhist centers and friends through his undiscriminating and constant compassion and wisdom.
We send our best wishes to his students and close ones at this time. Lama Ole Nydahl has asked his students us follow Tenga Rinpoche’s example by meditating even more, and he makes wishes that Rinpoche may return soon to a world that he will enjoy working in.
Gendun Rinpoche
“From the perspective of Dharma, our death is merely a change in the content of what we perceive. The appearences of our present world cease, and they make room for other perceptions. There is no real break: our mind continues to be what it is in its true nature and to perceive with the same tendencies. The frame of reference of our perceptions changes but fundamentally the same process continues – the reactions of our mind remain the same as before. In truth, death, as much as life, is an illusion, a transient in-between state, a bardo. Contrary to what we may perhaps assume, with our death everything does not simply come to an end.”
Gendun Rinpoche (1918–1997), ”Heart Advice from a Mahamudra Master“
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