Tibetan Studies

Young Spiritual Leader Arrives in New York, Ready to Teach and Be Taught (Phayul)

16 May 2008

The 22-year-old living Buddha seemed joyfully aware to feel no jet lag whatsoever. So far. "Maybe tonight," he said in English on Thursday. "But not yet." He had just arrived at a Midtown hotel with his security detail after a 14-hour flight from New Delhi to Newark.

Young Spiritual Leader Arrives in New York, Ready to Teach and Be Taught (New York Times)

16 May 2008

His Holiness, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, one of the most important leaders in Tibetan Buddhism.

The World's Next Top Lama (Time Magazine)

16 May 2008

A twentysomething may one day become the chief representative of the aspirations of Tibetan Buddhists. And he may be spending more time in America