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Our motivation is to provide Buddhist practitioners with genuine Dharma supplies and meditation supports. With your help we are able to give continued financial aid to Tibetan refugees living in Nepal and India. A further percentage of all sales is donated to Rokpa Trust or related Dharma projects. We hope you enjoy browsing through our website. Please email us with your comments and suggestions.

Excerpt from the statement given by His Holiness The Dalai Lama on 10 March 2002 on the 43rd Anniversary of The Tibetan National Uprising Day

The Buddhist culture of Tibet inspires the Tibetans with values and concepts of compassion, forgiveness, patience and a reverence for all forms of life that are of practical benefit and relevance in daily life and hence the wish to preserve it. Sadly, our Buddhist culture and way of life are under threat of total extinction. The majority of Chinese "development" plans in Tibet are designed to assimilate Tibet completely into the Chinese society and culture and to overwhelm Tibetans demographically by transferring large numbers of Chinese into Tibet. This unfortunately reveals that Chinese policies in Tibet continue to be dominated by "ultra-leftists" in the Chinese government, despite the profound changes carried out by the Chinese government and the Party elsewhere in the People's Republic of China. This policy is unbefitting of a proud nation and culture such as China and against the spirit of the 21st century. The global trend today is towards more openness, freedom, democracy and respect for human rights. No matter how big and powerful China may be, she is still a part of the world. Sooner or later China will have to follow the world trend. In the coming months and years the process of change that has already taken place in China will accelerate. As a Buddhist monk, I would like China, which is home to almost a quarter of the world's entire population, to undergo this change peacefully. Chaos and instability will only lead to large-scale bloodshed and tremendous suffering to millions of people. Such a situation would also have serious ramifications for peace and stability throughout the world. And as a human being, it is my sincere desire that our Chinese brothers and sisters enjoy freedom, democracy, prosperity and peace.

The full statement can be viewed at The official site for the Tibetan Government in Exile.

The Gyalwa Karmapas have incarnated in this form of nirmanakaya, or manifestation body, for seventeen lifetimes, all have played the most important role in preserving and propagating the pure Buddhist teachings of Tibet and the unbroken lineage of the Kagyu tradition. In 1985, a boy named "Apo Gaga" was born into a nomadic family in eastern Tibet. In 1992 that boy was recognized as the Seventeenth Karmapa.

"If genuine Bodhicitta is established in your mind, you will enter the path of the Bodhisattvas and you will always meet genuine spiritual friends in your lives to come. One will receive the nectar of the Dharma teachings, and will actualize Enlightenment, the perfect Buddhahood, without much delay."

HH 17th Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje

For more information about His Holiness the 17th Karmapa and the glorious kagyu lineage please click the link below.
HH 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Urgyen Trinley Dorje - The Official Website

Who is the Panchen Lama?

In May 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the six year-old boy identified by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama, disappeared. Suspicions that he had been kidnapped were confirmed in 1996, when the Chinese government admitted to holding the boy and his family in "protective custody."

After repeated attempts to locate and visit the boy, not one international agency or human rights organization has been allowed to meet with the Panchen Lama or his family, and their condition remains uncertain. Furthermore, in an attempt to establish their pre-eminence in all "internal affairs" of China, political or otherwise, the atheistic Chinese government nominated and selected their own 11th Panchen Lama in November 1995. Their selection, a six year-old boy named Gyaltsen Norbu, is another young victim in China's plan to undermine and control the Tibetan people, their religion, and their nation. Please click on the image to see how you can help. It is our sincere wish that the Chinese release the Panchen Lama so that he can pursue his spiritual heritage free from obstacles.

'Victorious Flag of the Buddha's Wisdom'

The 16th Karmapa saw this flag in a dream.
He named it Namkhyen Gyladar
"The Victorious Flag of the Buddhas Wisdom"
and announced "Wherever this banner is flown,
the Dharma will flourish."