The costumes and the jewellery for the dance were borrowed from Gyaltsab Rinpoche.ĭuring the mandala offering ceremony the Labrang or administration, many of whom had served the previous reincarnation, formed a procession that went from outside the Pavilion to the stage. This Lama Dance is another terma based on Guru Rinpoche’s life story and was revealed by the terton Guru Chowang, a contemporary of the 6th Karmapa. While the assembly of monks chanted devotional prayers to the guru, composed by the first Kongtrul, four dancers from Rumtek and four from Ralang Monastery performed a deftly executed dance known as Great Gratitude, to honour the kindness of the Kongtrul masters. The wounds left by the sudden passing of this beloved master have now been healed by his successor, who at 17, today took his place amongst the glorious Kongtrul reincarnations. As one of the four pillars strengthening the Kagyu lineage, it weakened the school for many years. In 1992 he died in a violent accident at the age of 38.
He served his Guru with body, speech and mind until the Karmapa’s death in 1981 and beyond. His devotion to the 16th Karmapa was a teaching beyond words. The previous or third Jamgon Kongtrul died in a tragic car accident only twenty years ago and his representation onstage made the event a memorial ceremony. The ceremony was designed both to commemorate the lineage and honour the succession. One thousand butter lamps were flickering on the steps of the stage. A blown-up photograph of the sacred handprints of the first Jamgon Kongtrul, Lodro Thaye, predominated centre stage with two other portraits, of the second and third Kongtruls, decorated with flowers and the seven offerings. The stage was set under the Karmapa’s meticulous supervision for a spectacular program commemorating two hundred years of the Kongtrul lineage. This moment of heartfelt devotion captures the relationship between the Karmapas and the Jamgon Kongtrul lineage: father and son, guru and disciple from lifetime to lifetime.
With exquisite care he placed it just below the golden Buddha at the top of the stage. When it arrived at the tiered stage, the Karmapa walked down the steps with a ceremonial scarf to greet the precious image.
They marched slowly with regal pomp while the horns announced the arrival of the sacred image contained within a bejewelled reliquary. Four men in brocade costumes, two in white and two in dark blue, held the palanquin. The statue is a terma treasure revealed by the 15th Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje, the father of the second Jamgon Kongtrul. At 7:30 in the morning a procession of monks in golden ceremonial hats set out from Tergar Monastery to the Monlam Pavilion carrying a plain wooden palanquin with a precious statue of Pema Gyalpo, one of the eight manifestations of Guru Rinpoche.
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