Dhagpo Kagyu Ling’s team is pleased to announce the French release by Rabsel Publications of View and Meditation that brings together teachings by the 2nd, 4th and 14th Shamarpas.
These essential texts of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism offer a profound introduction to the view and meditation of Mahamudra. They elucidate “concept-dharmakāya,” a term that originated with Gampopa (1079-1153) and invites one to recognize all experiences — thoughts, emotions and perceptions — as manifestations of awareness that is itself nothing other than mind’s nature.
The book includes a foreword by Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, which underlines the power of these traditional methods to reconnect us to a timeless presence and wisdom.
The book is available at the Dzambala bookstore.
The Shamarpa incarnations is the second line in the tradition of successive reincarnations that originated with the first Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa in twelfth century Tibet. This was instituted by the 3rd Karmapa Rangjung Dorje who presented his principal disciple Khaydrup Dragpa Senge with a ruby-red crown and conferred upon him the status Shamarpa that literally means ‘Holder of the Red Crown’.
That ruby-red crown is a replica of the black crown worn by the Karmapas, and it symbolizes the inseparability of their spiritual connection as emanations of the same mind-stream as stated by the second Karmapa Karma Pakshi that “Future Karmapas will manifest in two forms”. That statement was later clarified by the fourth Karmapa Rolpe Dorje who designated that the Shamarpa reincarnates as a second manifestation of himself.
