This year marked the 44th Parinirvāṇa Anniversary of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. We felt deeply honored to gather as a community—onsite and online—to practice together and draw inspiration from His Holiness’ life and teachings.

From our 2nd Guru Yoga Teaching Retreat (November 1-2) through the traditional pujas and prayers on November 5th, to the Amitabha practice on November 6th, these days offered us the opportunity to reconnect with the heart of the Karmapa lineage through practice. 

Studying and Practicing Together

At Karmapa Center 16, we gather to study, contemplate, and meditate on the dharma. This center is for everyone. Inspired by the life and teachings of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa and the Karma Kagyü lineage, practicing together we can change the world from within.

Meditation for All
Guided meditation and contemplative study based on teachings of the Karmapa lineage.

Monthly Guru Yoga
Practicing His Holiness the 16th Karmapa’s Guru Yoga together on the first Saturday of each month.

Tibetan Language Class
Learning Tibetan through basic dharma discourses and conversations.

Learn more about each activity on each page. All of them are offered online. Please follow us on social media to learn when sessions are also held onsite.

Besides these activities, you are always welcome to visit KC16 during the day and join us for daily Tara or Mahakala practice if you like. It’s best to drop us a note in advance if you’d like to visit.

Karmapa Center 16’s mission is to commemorate His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa with a stupa, memorial, meditation hall, retreat center, and place to learn and study about the history of Buddhism and the Karma Kagyu lineage. This center will be in close proximity to the place of his passing, or parinirvana, and offer the opportunity for any interested visitors to pay respects, conduct pilgrimage, meditate, visit and learn.

I will always exert myself in dharmic recitations, proclamations, and readings.

In mind, I will not flutter back and forth like a young bird on a branch. Not getting absorbed in discursive thoughts of good and bad, I will meditate, cultivating forbearance and relying on my own perceptions, not those of others. I will reflect on how best to benefit the teachings and beings.

In particular, the vital essence of the thought of all victorious ones is the true nature—the uncontrived, innate dharmakaya. Without ever lapsing, I will sustain it with one taste in equipoise and post-meditation.

an excerpt from Heart Advice of the Karmapa, translated by Tyler Dewar