The Karmapas - The Lankavatara Sutra

 

     
     


HH 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khenpa


In the Lankavatara sutra Buddha declares :

'In the northern country will appear the one who increases virtue, the supreme spiritual friend.

The one who possesses the greatest enlightened power, who has the greatest ascetic ability, who many will listen to.

He will carry the name of 'the knower of the three times' or 'the holder of all the Buddhas' activity: Karmapa.

'Whoever sees his face, be it only once, will be freed from their obscuring veils, as it is prophesied that simply seeing him brings liberation.'