Kagyu Monlam 2024, Part 2 (Photos)
Thaye Dorje, His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, continued to preside over the prayers under the Bodhi Tree on days two, three and four of the 2024 Kagyu Monlam.
Once again this year, all the sessions of the prayer meeting were live-streamed, so as to enable practitioners from around the world to join in the accumulations.
Whenever Karmapa was seated on his throne at Mahabodhi Temple, various individuals and groups of practitioners came to the front to seek his blessing. He was also presented with Mandala offerings and the symbolic gifts of enlightened body, speech and mind by the Kagyu Monlam sponsors and various Rinpoches and lamas.
Karmapa also continued to receive countless groups of monastic and lay practitioners every day at Karma Temple and grant his blessings and Dharma advice to them.
On the evening of the 19th of December, Karmapa went back to the Mahabodhi Temple, together with the Kagyu Monlam sponsors, to offer a new coat of gold paint to the Buddha statue in the main temple there. While one of the venerable monks of Mahabodhi Temple gingerly applied the gold paint to the entire body of the Buddha, Karmapa and his monks recited prayers and made aspirations in front of the magnificent statue.
For more impressions of this year’s Kagyu Monlam, please enjoy this selection of photos.
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