Khenpo karthar rinpoche biography of barack
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Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, was born in eastern Tibet in September 1923. His arrival followed the particulars laid out in A Dying Song — The Hidden Significance of a Bamboo Flower, An Ornament for the People by Khakhyab Dorje, the 15th Karmapa.
THE MIRACULOUS 16TH KARMAPA, edited by Norma Levine is a compilation of first hand accounts of life changing encounters with Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. His first visit to the West in 1974 preceded the Dalai Lama by five years. The visit was initiated by an invitation from the Dharma Center of Canada at the behest of Lama Namgyal Rinpoche (shown below with the Karmapa, Kinmount, Ontario 1974). Namgyal had been the Canadian seeker George Leslie Dawson before starting to practice Theravada Buddhism in 1956. He traveled to Burma and studied under U Thila Wunta. First he became a monk then an Acharya (Dhamma teacher). He met the Karmapa at Rumtek in 1968. It was his inspired vision that prompted the Mahabodhi Society of the UK to offer Johnstone House, an old hunting lodge in Eskdalemuir, Scotland to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Rinpoche. So began Samye Ling, Vajrayana Buddhism’s beachhead in the West.
Trungpa and Akong both played pivotal roles while implementing the Karmapa’s vis
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FIRST in a Series
This story is part of a series leading up to the celebration of Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche’s 90th birthday in September, 2013. At the conclusion of this year’s Ten-Day Teaching, a large shrine dedicated to White Tara, the protectress of health and longevity, will be assembled at KTD as part of a three-day White Tara Puja for the benefit of His Holiness Karmapa, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, and all the teachers of the lineage. The White Tara Shrine will include beautiful statues consecrated by Khenpo Rinpoche. To find out more, click here.
From the time of his boyhood in Tibet, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche had an eye for beautiful things and the ability to create them with remarkable precision.
“He is someone who was very creative even when he was little,” says Lama Karma Drodhul, Rinpoche’s primary attendant and assistant (as well as his nephew). “He was always sewing different brocades or had a knife with him for shaving wood, he was always building something. He was very, very good, even when he was a child.”
After completing his advanced dharma training, that same sharp eye for detail and beauty proved useful to him. He became Thrangu Rinpoche’s Chöpön (Shrine Master), caring for the shrines of Thrangu Monastery and traveling to build others around