Lion’s Roar – Portrait of the 16th Karma pa

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The 16th Gyalwa Karmapa was a revered and well-liked Tibetan teacher during his lifetime. Born in 1922, he fled Tibet during the Chinese invasion in 1959 and settled in Sikkim, where he had previously founded a monastery, where he died of cancer in 1981.

During that period, he trained four key pupils, whom he brought from Tibet as youngsters and whose life-task would be to train his own reincarnation. Before he dies, the Karmapa always knows where he will be reincarnated, what day it will be, and who his parents will be.

Unfortunately, as everyone who is interested in Tibetan Buddhism is aware, there has been a long-running and still unresolved dispute over who the reincarnated Karmapa is, with two contenders identified and some heated debate, partly because the identification letter left by the Karmapa is normally quite cryptic and thus inconclusive.

The 1983 documentary features historical footage of the Karmapa, primarily from the time after he left Tibet, as well as his travels to America, where he built several institutes. There are also interviews with his pupils and Chogyam Trungpa, who invited him to the United States in the first place and was there for his spectacular funeral in Sikkim.

We don’t hear much from the Karmapa himself, but his loving presence is palpable, and the testimony of many who encountered him, even the astounded physicians in the United States who were treating him while he was dying, bears testament to the man who was considered by many as a living Buddha.

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The Karmapa in the United States

Sikkim’s Rumtek Monastery

Rumtek Monastery monks

Rinpoche Tai Situ

Trungpa Chogyam Rinpoche

Rumtek Monastery’s Funeral

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