2,600+ years since Buddha's Awakening.

900+ years of the Karma Kagyu lineage.

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•  June 26th 2014 is the 29th birthday of Karmapa, according to the conventional Western view. From a Tibetan perspective, it is his 30th.  Tsering!  [long life!]

• Who is The Karmapa?  A brief montage prepared for the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje's end of May - 9th of June visit to Germany is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po7OKrxn0ww#t=200

•  11 June 2014: The 14th Shamar Rinpoche Mipham Chokyi Lodro died as a result of a cardiac accident.  See the official announcement by the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa at

  • http://kagyuoffice.org/official-announcement-regarding-the-passing-away-of-kunzig-shamar-rinpoche-from-the-gyalwang-karmapa/

  The document is in Tibetan with English translation following.

  Karmapa ordered that prayers be offered at Rumtek Monastery for 49 days, as is customary.  Rumtek, in Sikkim, India, had been established by the 16th Karmapa Rigpe Dorje as the seat of the Kagyu denomination in exile.  Other monasteries are following suit.  

  •  15 June:  The Tibet Post interview, in which Karmapa gives some history.

    •  The 5th Karmapa (1384–1415) foretold a period of discord after the 16th Karmapa

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  •   Ecobuddhism:  Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche responds to questions
    •  http://www.ecobuddhism.org/bcp/all_content/buddhist_declaration/

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