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Giving Back to Those Who Give

The Mulan Restaurant, Flushing, New York June 11, 2018 An elegant Chinese restaurant in the center of Flushing was the site of a gala luncheon celebrating over 400 members of the sangha, staff, and sponsors who made the Ninth North American Kagyu Monlam possible. The...

The Marme Monlam Lights Up the World

The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York.  June 10, 2018 For the concluding celebration of this Ninth North American Kagyu Monlam, the venue was shifted from an outlying area of New York City to its very center, Madison Square Gardens. Not only is this...

Abundant Offerings to the Gurus

  North American Kagyu Monlam, York College, Queens, New York June 9, 2018 This morning a new long table in front of the shrine was filled with heaps of offerings for the practice known as “A Ritual of Offerings to the Gurus.” Performed on the last day of the Monlams,...

Compassion Has Its Reasons

  June 8, 2018   On this third day of the North American Kagyu Monlam, His Holiness continued to explain the Three Principal Aspects of the Path. Having finished the first of the three, the desire for liberation, he had started the second, the generation of mahayana...

What Is Emptiness Really?

The Karmapa Concludes His Teachings and Bestows the Empowerment of Chenrezik North American Kagyu Monlam, York College, Queens, New York June 9, 2018 This afternoon the Gyalwang Karmapa completed his teachings on the Three Principle Aspects of the Path and then gave...

Practical and Spiritual Ways of Benefitting Others

Practical and Spiritual Ways of Benefitting Others North American Kagyu Monlam, York College, Queens, New York June 8, 2018   Before giving the sojong (fasting) vows today, His Holiness gave a brief explanation of their meaning. “Taking these mahayana fasting vows for...