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The visit of His Holiness
the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa,
Ogyen Trinley Dorje
A supplication
from Trungpa Rinpoche
Click on the photograph to listen
(Photograph by Lee Weingrad)
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Three months after the Sixteenth Karmapa's death in late 1981, Trungpa Rinpoche lead the community in a supplication. He said:
Repeat after me.
Your Holiness please return to us.
Your Holiness please return to us.
Your Holiness please return to us.
Continue to teach us.
Be our guide.
Be our friend.
Be our only source of inspiration.
Please come back soon.
We wait for you.*
The 17th Karmapa at Hammerstein Ballroom, May 17th, 2008. Photographer: James Gritz. ©2008 by Karmapa Foundation.
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Now that wait is over. His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa arrived in New York on Thursday, May 15, for a tour of the United States, including stops in New York, Boulder, and Seattle. See karmapavisit.org for details.
His predecessor's visits in the 1970s and 1980s had a profound impact on Trungpa Rinpoche's sangha, and on the development of vajrayana dharma in the West. The return of the Karmapa, the head of the Kagyu lineage, the lineage of Trungpa Rinpoche, is an historic moment for the western sangha.
Images from the Karmapa's visit
We would to express our gratitude to the Karmapa Foundation and Nalandabodhi for making these image available on the Chronicles. Check out karmapavisit.blogspot.com for more images and updates from the visit organizers.
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His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa at the welcoming ceremony in New York City, May 15, 2008. Photographer: James Gritz. Copyright 2008 by Karmapa Foundation.
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His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa teaching at Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom, May 18th, 2008. Photographer: Gregg Rock. Copyright 2008 by Karmapa Foundation.
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Audience at Karmapa's first public teaching in America, Hammerstein Ballroom, May 17th, 2008. In center foreground is Bardor Tulku Rinpoche. Photographer: James Gritz. Copyright 2008 by Karmapa Foundation.
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