Karma Sherpa Dorje Tulku

The Sublime Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche was born in the Amdo region of Tibet in the place called Do Kok in 1970. At the age of eight, Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche began studies of reading, writing, grammar and poetry as well as all of the Five Traditional Sciences. At the age of thirteen, Katok Getse Rinpoche, Ser Kar Lama Jigsel, and Lama Zenkarwa Jangchub Dorje Rinpoche together recognized Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche as the reincarnation of Nenang Lama Jamyang Rinpoche. At eighteen years old, from Chouthing monastery and Zhamthang Monastery Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche began studies with the Great Spiritual Teacher, Tulku Lobsang Thrinley Rinpoche including Logic, Prajnaparamita, Madhyamika as well as other subjects.

Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche also engaged in practice and study of the Secret Mantra at this time, including the Kalachakra, the Six Yogas of Naropa, and the Six Yogas of the Jonang Lineage and other topics.

Following these studies, he completed a three-year retreat. When Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche was twenty-eight years old, Tulku Lobsang Thrinley Rinpoche granted him authority to give teachings, bestow empowerments and carry on all teaching activities. When he was twenty-nine years old, Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche came to Lhasa from where he continued to Nepal and then to Dharamsala, India. Here, he was able to see His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and received teachings from great masters of all the lineages of Buddhism without any sectarian partiality. including the 10th Panchen Lama. In addition, Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche remained in retreat above Dharamsala for over two years.

In 1999, Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche met his teacher H. H. Tulku Gyalwa Jampa Rinpoche in Nepal and began staying at His Holiness's Sanatan Dharma Center in Kathmandu. In 2000, funds were given in the amount of $1,500 to help Rinpoche in his project to rebuild the statue of Guru Rinpoche and the stupas destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and to begin construction of a small Retreat Gompa at one of the very holy sites of Tibetan Buddhism. Nenang Cave (Tib.:Shrotut) is a very sacred Guru Rinpoche Site in Buddhism.

Rinpoche's project is to restore a large statue of Guru Rinpoche to the Stupa located by the cave, and build a small gompa to house around 10 monks . It is near the Neneng Choling Rito Monastery, one day's walk from Tsongnyen, in Amdo, Tibet. Karma Sherpa Dorje Rinpoche studies Naropa's teaching, as do the monks currently living close to Guru Rinpoche's meditation cave.

Today, Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche continues Mahamudra practice and is studying the English language at a University in Ohio.

In 2004, the Church of Shambhala sponsored Tulku Karma Sherpa Rinpoche to visit our Maitreya Buddha Monastery in Glastonbury England, and our United States Centers in Mt. Shasta and Berkeley, California and Cornville, Arizona.

During his visit to the West, Karma Sherpa Dorje Rinpoche traveled with the Western monks and nuns to the various shows, and gave several small dharma talks to the Sangha. He offered the following understanding of H. H. Jetsun Gyalwa Jampa Gonpo's Maitreya Solar Cross from the perspective of his Tibetan Buddhist background.

"The holy, Maitreya Solar Cross is the realization of His Holiness Gyalwa Jampa Rinpoche's special and precious knowledge externalized for the benefit and healing of all sentient beings.

Made using precious crystals, gold plating, copper wire and magnets, it represents a special science within Buddhism. Pure and natural crystals have the power to bless all sentient beings with long life. In Buddhist teaching, gold and copper are two of the most precious metals. They help the blood to flow and vivify all the channels of the body, restoring power and life. From the magnets, comes a great energy that realigns speech, mind and the physical body to a higher reality of virtue and goodness.

The Maitreya Solar Cross is a three dimensional Mandala of Light, of pure crystal nature, with the power to bring forth the light within all living beings and in all matter and to dissolve negativity.

Like the Dharma, the Maitreya Solar Cross and all the healing tools created and designed by His Holiness Gyalwa Jampa Rinpoche are like medicine. They are like a holy medicine for the Earth and for all sentient beings, tantric medicine to create harmony and renew all life.

Just as a stupa radiates light out into the world to heal the Earth, Sun, Moon, Sky and Space and to bring all the elements back together in harmonious order, so the Maitreya Solar Cross similarly radiates out, heals and puts all the elements back into complimentary relationship.

The Earth has been crying. The mountains, the valleys, the jungles and forests are all restored by the radiatory energy of the Maitreya Solar Cross to their natural beauty and color and life returns to the face of the Earth. The weather is calmed and becomes more moderate. Flowers appear where none grew before. The Earth becomes fertile again and crops grow which are wholesome, full of nutrients and nourish all living beings. The animals too, are helped and blessed to heal. Born in healthy bodies and able to reproduce, they are happy again. And the birds sing louder than ever. Harmony is restored.

Humanity has been suffering. By hanging a Maitreya Solar Cross in the home, many obstacles and demons are removed. Families can come together in love and happiness. Harmlessness will prevail. Human beings can experience peace, love and true happiness and enjoy success in their businesses and relationships. Illnesses are cured and the human body regenerates. Emotions are calmed and all sufferings and bad feelings cease. The Maitreya Solar Cross heals the mind, body and speech of all human beings."
Venerable Karma Sherpa Dorje