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| Interview with His Holiness Karmapa This interview was conducted in March 2000. Living Buddha Documentary A review of a cinematic documentary on the search for and enthronement of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa. Teaching by His Holiness Karmapa A Spontaneous Teaching on Sunyata Given by His Holiness 17th Gyalwang Karmapa to Richard Gere and friends at a private audience with Karmapa March 24, 2000. Sogyal Rinpoche was translating, with Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Tulku in attendance. Teaching by His Holiness Karmapa The Importance of Study From His Holiness 17th Gyalwang Karmapa�s Address at the Twentieth Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya, India, 2002. Reprinted with appreciation from ��Dharma Nectar�, Vol XXII, 2 NEW! Teaching by His Holiness Karmapa Vegetarian Diet The 17th Karmapa's Talk on Vegetarianism / Not-Eating- Meat; as Translated Simultaneously, by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche: January 3rd, Full Moon Day, Bodhgaya India, during the 24th Annual Great Kagyu Monlam, 2007 Public Talk: Euthanasia By Venerable Lama Karma Samten Gyatso Venerable Lama Samten was born in 1947 in West Tibet. He entered his uncle's monastery at the age of five and left when China invaded Tibet in 1959. He continued his studies in India under the guidance of H.E. Beru Khyentse Rinpoche and consolidated his training in three successive traditional 3 year, 3 month, 3 day solitary retreats. In 1981, H.H. 16th Gyalwang Karmapa appointed him as a resident teacher at his New Zealand seat, Karma Choeling Buddhist Monastery, Kaukapakapa. Lama-la gave this talk at Canterbury University in 1999. Teaching: Impermanence By Venerable Lama Assi Teaching: The Precious Human Birth By Venerable Lama Assi Venerable Lama Assi completed a three year retreat in India under the guidance of His Eminence Beru Khyentse Rinpoche and Venerable Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche in the early 1960's. He was then requested to manage His Eminence Beru Khyentse Rinpoche's monastery in Mainpat for several years before taking on the responsibility of project manager for nine years of His Eminence's new monastery in Bodhgaya. This was at the request of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa. On it's completion, Venerable Karma Thinley Rinpoche asked him to manage his nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1999, Venerable Lama Samten and Venerable Lama Shedrup requested Lama Assi to help set up and oversee a Christchurch centre. |