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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...
...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...
...Karmapa will publicly perform the ancient ceremony of the Vajra Crown, a sacred Buddhist rite, in Boston on December 9. Only Karmapa is permitted to perform the rite, which his followers say "transmits directly to the audience the energy and intelligence of the Karmapa's awakened state of mind...
...York on September 21 Karmapa performed the ceremony for the first time in the Western world...