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...oldest of Tibetan Buddhism's four allied schools, Kagyu Karma was the first to adopt reincarnation as a means of choosing its leader, called the Karmapa. The process is not always peaceful; over the centuries, warring factions have sponsored dueling candidates, igniting bloody battles...
...current feud began in a Chicago cancer ward, with the 1981 death of a man named Ranjung Rigpe Dorje. After the 1950 occupation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, Rigpe, the 16th Karmapa, had established a thriving exile community and engineered the school's current Western popularity. Yet he appeared to have left one task undone: the penning of the traditional poem that would help his followers find his reincarnated self -- and thus the next Karmapa...
...September 1992 Ugen Thinley was officially enthroned as the 17th Karmapa in Tibet's Tsurphu Monastery. But in New Delhi in March a defiant Shamar unveiled his own choice for the job: a bespectacled 10-year-old named Tenzin Chentse, whose parents he said were Tibetan refugees. His enthronement, Shamar announced, would take place by year...
...claim under India's constitutional guarantee of religious freedom; he predicted last week, "The outcome of this issue will be two branches of Black Hat Buddhism." That may leave many believers feeling a little like Shamar's young candidate when he received visitors at the fortress-like New Delhi Karmapa Buddhist Institute two weeks ago. Throughout the meeting, the would-be spiritual leader said nothing. But his eyes darted about nervously; he occasionally gulped deep breaths; and his hands were constantly wringing...
...Sadr, toast Saddam Hussein. Let Giscard D'Estaing drink with Yassir Arafat Deng Hsiao-ping, have one on Anwar Sadat. Solidarity will flow through the streets of Warszawa When Brezhnev sips vodka with Lech Walesa. Benigno Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos, share a beer, Ideally, when His Holiness the XVI Karmapa is near...