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full use of the latest online
educational methods. For Willingness to
example, Geshe Jampa Dagpa in
Moscow has started an online
forum for Geshe Lharampas Jump in and Help
from all over the world to debate

various topics that any member By HH The 17the Karmapa
can suggest. This is an excellent
usage of 21st-century technology
to further the Nalanda tradition
of Buddhist study through
debate. But to train students to
reach this level of Buddhist study
requires reaching the younger
generation.

The future of 21st-century
Buddhism and the Nalanda
tradition lies, in fact, in the hands
of the younger generation. To
provide a Buddhist education
to this new generation and
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (left) with His Holiness the 17th Karmapa
those that will follow requires
(right)
skill in means, as it always has.
In the Digital Age, this means
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is
using the full scope of modern
the head of the 900-year old Karma Kagyu lineage and guide to
online educational methods
millions of Buddhists around the world. Currently 33 years old, the
and always keeping up to date
Karmapa resides in his temporary home at Gyuto Monastery in
as new developments continue
India, after making a dramatic escape from Tibet in the year 2000.
to emerge. In this way, we can
Traveling the world, the Karmapa skilfully teaches traditional Tibetan
follow Buddha’s example of
always using skillful means that Buddhist Dharma while also advocating topic such as environmental
dependently arise in accord with conservation, feminism, digitization of the Dharma, and much more.
the changing times. Thank you.

Keynote address to conference The following article is an extract of a lecture His Holiness the Karmapa
on “Buddhism in the 21st gave at York College, Queens, New York, on June 7, 2018 on Lama
Century” Nava Nalanda Tsongkhapa’s Three Principles of the Path. On the third day of the Monlam,
Mahavihara, Nalanda, India, the Karmapa continued his teaching with the reminder, “We are looking
March 2017 EH at the text of Je Tsongkhapa known as the Three Principles of the Path. Its

subject is common to all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, though the
words themselves and the enumerations might differ. In addition to the
Geluk tradition of this text, we find in the Nyingma and Kagyu tradition the
Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind, and in the Sakya tradition, Parting from
the Four Attachments.