15th Karmapa Former Lives Of The Karmapa (PDF)

"First and foremost of the Tibetan tulkus, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa have long been famous as th guiding light of the Karma Kagyu tradition and erstwhile gurus of the emperors of China.

The 15th Karmapa one told Khuentse Rinpoche about ten former lives that the had mainly in other time-space dimension, in a series of stories now known as "Sakarchupa."

Later, as a refugee in India the 16th Karmapa one day stopped the jeep in which he was travelling and told the take of one of his former incarnations is that very place, as a famous king called Dzalendara.

These eleven tales describe vividly the power and purity of the Karmapa emanations and show us their determination to work skillfully for the welfare of all beings--human, animal and yet others--sometimes at the cost of their own lives."