Dhagpo New Residences
Dhagpo’s Team is happy to share that a new book by 14th Künzig Sharmapa, “Insight through Learning, Reflecting, and Meditating: The Fourfold Application of Mindfulness”, has been published by Rabsel Edition.
In this book, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö, His Holiness the Künzig 14th Shamarpa, guides practitioners through the steps of learning, reflecting and meditation in the context of the fourfold application of mindfulness.
This is the teaching he gave at Dhagpo Kagyu Ling in 2006 on this fundamental topic for cultivating different levels of insight, and training to place attention as closely as possible to the body, feelings, mind and mental phenomena.
The book is available in four languages: English, French, German and Spanish (forthcoming in May). The book is available at Dzambala boutique and 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’i Dorje who designated that the Shamarpa reincarnates as a second manifestation of himself.