Word: karmapa
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...religious leader of thousands of monasteries throughout India, Bhutan, Nepal, and, more recently, of meditation centers in the West, the Karmapa is the 16th incarnation in an unbroken lineage of spiritual teachers dating from the 12th century...
Followers believe the Karmapa fulfills the Buddha's prophesy that a teacher of great compassion, a Bohisattva, would come to the world to help alleviate the suffering of humanity...
...second-highest ranking lama in the world, and the head of the Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhists spread the word to nearly 100 people at the Divinity School Tuesday night, but the appearance of Gwalya Karmapa was overshadowed by the more worldly doings of politicos like Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell earlier and the week and film director Alan J. Pakula and porn star Harry Reems later...
...Karmapa was invited to preach at the Div School by Dean Krister Stendhal and Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity...
...before Karmapa, in the United States to open a Buddhist monastery administered to the faithful, Powell and Jordan participated in discussions for the more cynical in the Institute of Politics' second Conference on Campaign Decision-Making, held last weekend...