Lama Puntso welcome Shamar Rimpoche

Did you realize, Rinpoche, that we are going to celebrate the 30th year of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling soon?

Dhagpo is owing its existence

• to the enlightened wishes of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa
• to the enlightened activity of Gendun Rinpoche
• to the enlightened patience of Jigme Rinpoche
• and also to the enlightened presence of Thaye Dorje, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa

But if Dhagpo still exists, we most of all owe its existence to the infallible support we received throughout these years from you.

You offered advice, you gave instructions, transmitted teachings and initiations incessantly. Even when times were difficult, you were there.

Thanks to that activity, we now have lamas and druplas, ordained and lay, who in turn teach the dharma. We also have a lot of practitioners committed to studying and meditating, and practitioners engaged in the activity of the Dhagpo mandala centres in order to keep them running.

All members of our sangha have done their best to listen to and reflect on your instuctions, and to put them into practice. We all wish to be a support of your activity, tools at your disposal.

Talking about tools, there is one that is about to be realised: it is the Institute of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling.

Jigme Rinpoche calls it a place, where the various aspects of the dharma will be integrated and kept alive. The activities develop little by little. Now we await the building which will accomodate them. Although there is progress, the building takes a long time to get off the ground.

I take the occasion of your presence to announce in the name of all, the wish that Dhagpo may quickly become the place envisionned by the 16th Karmapa. May we all together with the united strength of our aspiration accomplish the benefit of beings.

Thank you for being with us. We will now offer the mandala of the universe as well as body, speech and mind so as to generate the necessary merit to listen to this teaching.