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UNIVERSAL AND UNCONDITIONAL

“We all share this same profound wish to be happy. If we reflect deeply on this fact, it is clear that we have no valid basis for including some in the embrace of our compassion while excluding others.”~The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa

The Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, in “INTERCONNECTED, EMBRACING LIFE in OUR GLOBAL SOCIETY”, p77 (eBook version)

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“His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa will bestow the reading transmission (lung) and instructions for his newly composed White Tara Longevity sadhana entitled, "The Feast of the Deathless Nectar: A Method for Offering Longevity Prayers to the Holy Masters Through the Practice of White Tārā, the Wish-Fulfilling Wheel" — a rare and precious opportunity to receive this practice directly from the author himself.

This is an extraordinary occasion to receive a living transmission of a fresh composition by one of the foremost Buddhist masters of our time.” -Karmapa KTD

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His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa will bestow the reading transmission (lung) and instructions for his newly composed White Tara Longevity sadhana entitled, "The Feast of the Deathless Nectar: A Method for Offering Longevity Prayers to the Holy Masters Through the Practice of White Tārā, the Wish-Fulfilling Wheel" — a rare and precious opportunity to receive this practice directly from the author himself.

This is an extraordinary occasion to receive a living transmission of a fresh composition by one of the foremost Buddhist masters of our time. All are welcome.

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In meditation, you don't need an improved version, or a spiritualized version, of your mind. Don't edit your thoughts.

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𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝑀𝒪𝒩𝒯𝐻 𝒪𝐹 𝑀𝐸𝑅𝐼𝒯𝒮
𝒮𝒶𝑔𝒶 𝒟𝒶𝓌𝒶: 𝑀𝒶𝓎 𝟣𝟩𝓉𝒽 - 𝒥𝓊𝓃𝑒 𝟣𝟧𝓉𝒽, 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟨

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ཕྱོགས་བཅུའི་སེམས་ཅན་གང་རྣམས་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །

དེ་དག་རྟག་ཏུ་ནད་མེད་བདེ་བར་གྱུར། །

འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དོན་རྣམས་ནི། །

མཐུན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིང་རེ་བའང་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག །

chok chü semchen gang nam jinyé pa
dedak taktu nemé dewar gyur
drowa kün gyi chö kyi dön nam ni
tünpar gyur ching rewa ang drubpar shok

Let as many sentient beings as there are in all the ten directions
Live always and forever in happiness and health!
Let all beings meet the Dharma
That befits them best! And so may all they hope for be fulfilled!

—from 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗮’𝘀 “𝗔𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀” (𝗭𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗰𝗵ö 𝗠ö𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗺)

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Read and download the full text 'The King of Aspiration Prayers: Samantabhadra’s “Aspiration to Good Actions” (Zangchö Mönlam)' here at Lotsawa House:
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/words-of-the-buddha/samantabhadra-aspiration-good-actions

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Photo: Buddha Shakyamuni, thangka painted by R.D. Salga, master of the Karma Gadri tradition of thangka painting, and brother of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche.

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On World Environment Day we must take action to ensure that the Earth and all its inhabitants may be well.

𝔾𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 ℚ𝕦𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕤

IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE A STUDENT

𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩.
𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧
𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩.

𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬.
𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬.
𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣.

𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨.
𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙩.
𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙢.

𝙄 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚.
𝙄 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙢.
𝙄 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜.

𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙.
𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛.
𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣.

𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩.
𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙄 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚.
𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩.

𝙍𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙪 𝙏𝙪𝙡𝙠𝙪
𝙂𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙤𝙠, 𝙎𝙞𝙠𝙠𝙞𝙢, 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖, 2003

𝘐𝘯 “𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮: 𝘐𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘒𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦, 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘹𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥”, 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶 𝘛𝘶𝘭𝘬𝘶 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘯, 𝘱.33

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On Friday, July 24, 2026 Karmapa Center 16 will hold a consecration ceremony for a life-sized bronze statue of Guru Rinpoche, crafted by an artisan in Nepal and newly installed.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche will lead the ceremony Friday, July 24, offering a teaching on “The Life and Teachings of Guru Rinpoche” Saturday, July 25.

Events are free and open to the public, onsite at the Center and broadcast live online.

Register https://karmapacenter16.org/2026/04/20/guru-rinpoche-statue-and-teaching/

Karmapa Center 16 was established near Zion, IL to commemorate His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to the statue, the Center will eventually include a temple with a large shrine room and meditation hall to house the Parinirvana Stupa (a reliquary monument for His Holiness), a library, classrooms, and other associated buildings. The site was chosen because Zion is where the Karmapa passed away at the Cancer Treatment Center of America on November 5, 1981. Karmapa Center 16 will be a pilgrimage site for Buddhists and is intended as a sacred space for everyone; dedicated to cultivating kindness, peace, understanding and compassion.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche recently said, “In my view, anything one can do to extend assistance and support is not only deeply appreciated but is also a powerful contribution toward ensuring that the precious Kagyu lineage and all of its teachings remain present in the world, that His Holiness’ presence may remain uninterrupted, and that the world may continue to experience happiness, well-being, and benefit. That support and the contributions will help this benefit spread throughout the world.”