In April, events highlighted several major transmissions received by the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje in 2000 and 2002, as well as the birth of the Dhagpo Kagyu Ling library, one of the five resources indicated by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa for the Dharma to take root in the West.
A look back at the highlights of April 2025:
April 6, 2000: Chögye Trichen Rinpoche transmits the Druptap Küntü, the Collection of all Sadhanas, to the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa.
To commemorate this event, two masters from the Sakya and Kagyü lineages spoke about the life and work of Chögye Trichen Rinpoche.
At Dhagpo Kundreul Ling, on April 7, 2025, Lama Jampa Thaye, as part of his teaching, said: “The supreme nirmanakaya that is the Gyalwa Karmapa is beyond training, but to accomplish the good of disciples and beings, Karmapa underwent intensive training in the Dharma sutra and tantra traditions. In particular, this transmission showed what a vajra master with perfect qualities was in the person of Chögyé Trichen Rinpoche, and what a perfectly qualified disciple was in the person of Karmapa, as described in the text The 50 Verses on the Lama.”
In homage to this historic moment, the Dorje Pamo practice was carried out in the small temple of Kundreul Ling, the very place where this transmission took place in 2000.
At Dhagpo Kagyu Ling on April 30, Dhongtsang Shabdrung Rinpoche also spoke about the life of the eminent master Chögye Trichen Rinpoche and his activity at the monastic seat of Nalendra in Tibet. Then, after 1959, in Nepal, Chögye Trichen Rinpoche founded Tashi Rabten Ling in Lumbini and the Maitreya temple near Bodhnath, and gave numerous initiations and instructions throughout the world, without distinction of lineage or partiality. Dhongtsang Shabdrung himself received several initiations and instructions at a very young age from this great master, who entered parinirvana in 2007. After a sixteen-day thukdam, his body was taken to the Maitreya temple, where a parasol-shaped rainbow appeared in the sky.
Dhagpo Kundreul Ling – Lama Jampa Thaye
Kundreul Ling – Dorje Pamo practice
Dhagpo Kagyu Ling – Dhongtsang Shabdrung Rinpoche
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April 2000: The birth of a library in two stages
April 14-18
Ahead of the Kangyur procession, Tibetan-speaking practitioners read aloud in the library from each of the 103 volumes of the Kangyur, the Buddha’s words translated into Tibetan. This practice, widespread in Asia, is a sign of respect for the Buddha’s words.
April 30
On the first day of the Chenrezig course, some 300 people took part in a Kangyur procession around the stupas of the Sukhavati garden and the Dhagpo Kagyu Ling Institute. Walking in pairs, to the sound of the gyalings that opened the procession, practitioners each carried a volume of the Kangyur on their shoulder as they recited the mantra Om Mani Padme Houng. This was the first time such a procession took place at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling.
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