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Karmapa Karmapa invited Jamgon Khongtrul Tulku to come and give further teachings to him at Tsurphu. From him he received many teachings, including the Six Yogas of Naropa and the remaining Oral transmission. On the twenty-ninth day of the fourth month of the male water dragon year (1952) he visited Chang in Northern Tibet and there performed the Black Hat ceremony.
He went to the Kar Chung monastery and before entering it was seen to spit on the ground outside. An elderly lady devotedly gathered up the spittle and carefully preserved it. Later it was found to have turned into precious shining relics, which kept on multiplying. Many of these were given to sick people, helping them to become cured, and many are still preserved by his followers. Karmapa returned to Tsurphu on the seventeenth day of the tenth month of the same year completed and on the twenty-seven (1952).
On the eighteenth day of the fourth month of the male water snake year (1953) Karmapa journeyed to Lhasa, where be had audience with His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyamtso, and received the empowerment of Kalachakra from him. On the twenty-fifth day of the eighth month of the same year he returned to Tsurphu, where he imparted the full empowerment, explanation and initiation of ,Chosling Ter' to Chong Rinpoche of the Mindroling Nyingmapa monastery. He also performed ,Men-drup', the collection of medicinal plants, and distributed them widely.
On the seventeenth day of the sixth month of the male wood horse year (1954) the Gyalwa Karmapa visited China, together with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Chong Rinpoche and other High Lamas. After a stay in Peking and other parts of China, Karmapa returned to Tibet, traveling via many monasteries in Khams and Do, where he bestowed teaching and blessings. On this occasion he was asked to represent His Holiness the Dalai Lama who was himself unable to make the journey (1955).
The Dalai Lama accepted his invitation to visit Tsurphu, during which visit the Black Hat ceremony was performed for him, and in return he gave the empower-ment of the compassionate Avalokiteshwara. At this time fighting broke out in Eastern Tibet, between the Khampas and the Chinese. The Chinese sent a request for Karmapa to visit the area of Chamdo and he traveled there and advised both sides to refrain from any further hostilities.
While in Chamdo Karmapa had numerous visitors and bestowed many empowerments and blessings to create stability in the area. Then he travelled to Lhasa, where he explained the situation to the Dalai Lama before returning to his monastery at Tsurphu.
Karmapa travelled once more on pilgrimage to India. He rested at the Dechen Choskor Ling monastery and again at the Kargyud monastery at Yatrong, near Sikkim. From Sikkim the party moved to India, visiting Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, Kushinagara and Lumbini, where Karmapa met up with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who was also on pilgrimage there.
The journey continued to Nepal, where Karmapa visited the three Holy places, Bodhanath, Swayambhunath and Namo Buddhaya and gave blessings and teachings to many thousands. He returned once more to India, where he visited many Holy places of the South, including Ajanta, Ellora, and the great Stupa at Sanchi.
He continued on up to Kalimpong, near Darjeeling, where h e was met by Her Royal Highness Azi Wangmo of Bhutan. He travelled to Sikkim, visiting the Potong monastery in the North. There the elderly Lamas of the nearly ruined Rumtek monastery asked him to visit that place also. Karmapa told them that the time was not yet right, but that be would come later. He returned to Tsurphu, by which time further hostilities had started in the Domed region of Khams.
The Ninth Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and the Eighth Traleg Rinpoche both came to stay in Tsurphu. Karmapa recognized the twelfth incarnation of Gyaltsap Tulku, and performed his enthronement at Tsurphu monastery. From Sechen Khongtrul Rinpoche Karmapa received the initiation of ,Longchen Zod Dun', the teaching of Longchenpa the Siddha, along with the full explanations.
Fighting broke out all over Tibet and Karmapa was begged by his disciples to flee the country while he had the chance. He told them not to worry, saying "It is not necessary for me to leave yet. But if the time comes you can be assured that there will be no difficulty for me". Sometime later Karmapa sent Situ Tulku and the ninth Sangye Nyenpa Tulku to Bhutan.
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 Stupa at Bodnath Kathmandu, Nepal |