Extracted from The Karmapa Prophecies By Sylvia Wong In March of 1992, Situ Rinpoche produced a prediction letter allegedly written by the 16th Karmapa. The letter gives the names of parents and a place of birth. A few weeks later, […]
(excerpt from ” His Masters voice #8 ” which was published here earlier) Brown then retails the most serious charge of all, Tenzin Namgyal’s claim that Topga Rinpoche murdered his stepfather, the Karmapa’s General Secretary Damchoe Yongdu. First, Brown describes how Topga […]
Date: 28 March 2005 Mr. Mick Brown c/o Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 38, Soho Square London WID 3HB United Kingdom Dear Mr. Brown: I refer to your letter dated 12th December, 2004. You said in your letter: ‘the focus of this […]
This is the ninth article in a series of responses to Mick Brown’s The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa (Bloomsbury , 2004). Date: 22.11.2004 Mr. Mick Brown c/o Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 38, Soho […]
By Dawa Tsering Director, Kathmandu Office, IKKBO This is the eighth article in a series of responses to Mick Brown’s The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa (Bloomsbury , 2004). Topga Rinpoche succeeded Damchoe Yongdu […]
Rumtek Monastery was established and developed by the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpai Dorje on a site measuring 74 acres offered to him by King Tashi Namgyal of Sikkim in 1962. His Holiness kept all religious Buddhist relics and […]