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  • Former Lives of the Karmapas

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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 18.1 MB
    Pages | 140
    Language | English
    Category | Buddhism
    Description:  Wondrous tales from the former lives of the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
    The Fifteenth Karmapa once told Khyentse Rinpoche about ten former lives, mainly in other time-space dimensions, in a series of stories now known as Sakarchupa.

    Later, when the Sixteenth Karmapa was eight years old, he told many a story of his previous lives to one of his gurus, Gongkar Pandita, who carefully kept in writing the nectar of the young Karmapa's words. However, when His Holiness had to leave Tibet, Gongkar Pandita was himself unable to escape and his precious records were no longer available. In 1976, His Holiness and his party were driving through Himachal Pradesh through a place called, by Tibetans, Dzalendara. It was raining very slightly and the peacocks were singing softly. His Holiness had the car stopped and said to his attendents, "I have come back to my motherland." He then told the following wondrous story.
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