Word: karmapa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karmapa is organizing a study center for Dharmadhatu in Carmel, N.Y., on 350 acres of donated land. At the reception he said he plans to build libraries, language labs and seminars at the Carmel estate, making it "the fountainhead where people will be able to learn the teaching of Dharmadhatu...
...Gwalya Karmapa, the second-highest ranking living lama, is spending three months in the United States teaching the beliefs of his Buddhist order, Dharmadhatu. He came at the invitation of Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity...
...Karmapa, who swept into the Center for World Religion in a limousine flanked by a police escort, told about 20 reporters at a 5 p.m. news conference that his religion emphasizes the "impermanence of physical existence," the "permanence of the mind" and "compassion" for others...
Speaking to the crowd--which included Divinity School faculty members and students, reporters and American followers of Karmapa, Stendhal said of the mixing of Eastern and Western cultures, "This is a world where Buddha will have his witnesses in the West and Christ will have his witnesses in the East...