The Light of Enlightenment

The Light of Enlightenment
Kathmandu, Nepal

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The 16th Karmapa



"When you do things,
then obstacles will come and you can  go through them.
Obstacles are a sign of success"


The Sixteenth Karmapa was the leader of one of Tibetan Buddhism's four major schools of spiritual teachings: the Kagyu lineage.

In 1931, at the age of seven, he performed his first Black Crown ceremony. Thousands were witness to this amazing event. It was said that a rain of flowers fell and the sky was filled with rainbows. Even while still very young, the great power of the 16th Karmapa became widely known[. It was recorded that he took his attendant's sword and tied it in a knot.

How he lived and how he died gives us the example of an awakened being, a person with a noble heart.






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