Quotes & Links
…”his visit to the UK in June will offer a first-hand opportunity to experience the mind which may one day represent Tibet in the way the Dalai Lama does now.”
The Guardian,London - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/26/karmapa-buddhism-lama
“The New Dalai Lama”
Geo Magazine, Germany, January 10, 2010 – http://blog.thecompellingimage.com/2010/01/10/
“Far from isolated he appeared as someone who understood the DNA of the world and could speak with some authority to anyone, anywhere, anytime….”
‘He spoke plainly from his heart, about his experience of mind and life, almost like a New York cabbie telling you what he thought about things while still keeping his eye on the road ahead’.
Shambhala Sun January 2010 – http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3474
“Tibet’s Rising Son”
‘…he is the only major tulku, or reincarnation, currently recognized by both the Chinese and the Dalai Lama. He could be the hinge on which relations between Tibetans and China swing in a new direction’.
Newsweek March 2009: http://www.newsweek.com/id/185796
‘The World’s Next Top Lama’
Time Magazine May 15, 2008 – http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1807103,00.html
‘Ugyen Trinley Dorje’s age, spiritual presence and dramatic escape have made him a rock star in certain precincts of Tibetan Buddhism, and some have invoked a Barack Obama parallel’.
New York Times, May 16, 2008 – http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/nyregion/16karmapa.html
‘he turns 22 next month, he now speaks six languages, and he’s becoming more and more of a magnet … There’s absolutely no doubt that he is the new star: dynamic, powerful, full of young energy but with tremendous discipline and dignity, enormously sage for his age’.
The Independent 2007 – http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/life-after-the-dalai-lama-448843.html
‘The youthful Karmapa is emerging as one of the great teachers of the modern age with the wisdom and facility to distil the traditional complexities of Buddhist philosophy into contemporary values and truths’.Mick Brown, The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa (Bloomsbury, 2004) : ‘the most powerful teenager in the world’
The Independent, 2001 - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-most-powerful-teenager-in-the-world-breaks-his-long-silence-682926.html
‘currently seen as the second most important Tibetan religious leader after the Dalai Lama’ BBC News, 2001:
‘clearly a serious and exceptionally intelligent 15-year-old. Few can doubt his credentials as a future Tibetan leader.’
The Observer, 2001 - http://www.kagyuoffice.org/karmapa.reference.media.observer.010429.html
‘a fourteen-year-old, six-foot-tall, poetry-writing, Internet-surfing Tibetan monk’
US Elle Magazine, 2001
‘one of Tibet’s holiest figures’
TIME Magazine, 2000
‘On 28 Dec, 1999, the youth climbed out of a monastery window in Tibet, jumped to the ground and clambered into a waiting jeep. Days later he suddenly turned up in the township of Dharamsala in northern India, where the Dalai Lama heads Tibet’s government in exile. The term thunderbolt best describes the effect of his arrival’.
Newsweek, 2000
