50 years – Kangyur Procession to mark the birth of the Dhagpo Kagyu Library

April 2000: A Library is Born

On April 30, from 2:30 p.m., to mark this event and for this first time at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling, all practitioners will be invited to join a Kangyur procession. The Kangyur texts (the Buddha’s words translated into Tibetan) are kept in their traditional format in the Library. The texts will be carried in procession from the Institute, around the Sukhavati Garden and all the Dhagpo stupas.

Ahead of this, between April 14 and 18 (from 10 to 10:30 a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.), practitioners who can read Tibetan are invited to join reading aloud from each of the 103 volumes that constitute the collection, in the Library’s reading room and in the Tibetan documentary holding room. 

This practice, which is widespread in Asia, is an expression of respect towards the Buddha’s words contained in these volumes, and a reminder that it is the reliable source of authentic Dharma, the supports enabling us to know what to cultivate and what to abandon, and the means to free ourselves from suffering. It is in fact the very presence of the Buddha.