Thursday 17. June 2004: Rødby, Denmark Gyalwa Karmapa and his party, accompanied by Lama Ole and Hannah Nydahl, travelled to Rødby, Denmark. H.H. Karmapa was greeted with a welcoming ceremony at the Rødby retreat center.
Friday 18. June 2004: Rødby, Denmark Gyalwa Karmapa inaugurated the Mahakala room and gave the first part of the Demchok initiation to those who had completed Ngöndro, the Foundational Practices. 350 people received the initiation.
Saturday 19. June 2004: Rødby, Denmark Gyalwa Karmapa gave the second part of the Demchok initiation. H.H. Karmapa also gave the initiation of Amitayus, the Buddha of Limitless Life, and the Bodhisattva promise to 800 Dharma students from Denmark and other parts of Europe.
Sunday 20. June 2004: Copenhagen, Denmark Gyalwa Karmapa and his party of lamas and monks travelled to the Diamond Way Buddhist Center in Copenhagen. Karmapa gave a forty-minute-long television interview with the biggest TV station in Denmark.
Monday 21. June 2004: Prague, Czech Republic Gyalwa Karmapa, Lama Ole and Hannah Nydahl and party arrived in Prague. It was H.H. Karmapa’s first visit to this country. Representatives of the 34 Diamond Way Buddhist centers in the Czech Republic greeted H.H. Karmapa. Lama Ole gave a public lecture to the hundreds of people who arrived to take part in the program.
Tuesday 22. June 2004: Prague, Czech Republic Gyalwa Karmapa visited the new Diamond Way Buddhist center in Prague and had lunch with members of the Czech Sangha while sailing on a boat on the Moldau River. Later, H.H. Karmapa gave the Dorje Sempa, Diamond Mind, initiation to over 1,500 people in the largest concert hall in Prague. There were also hundreds of dharma students from several other Eastern European countries in attendance at the initiation.
Wednesday 23. June 2004: Brno, Czech Republic H.H. Karmapa gave the Bodhisattva promise to over 1,500 people. H.H. Karmapa, Lama Ole, Hannah Nydahl and a party of 40 travelled to Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, where Gyalwa Karmapa was welcomed in the Diamond Way Buddhist Center. Later H.H. Karmapa gave an interview to a Czech Radio station. The journey continued to Hungarywhere H.H. Karmapa and the accompanying party stayed at the Diamond Way Buddhist Center in Budapest. Gyalwa Karmapa gave the Lung of the 3rd Karmapa’s Mahamudra wishes to over 500 Dharma students from Hungary. |