In this original play, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, made full use of the genre of theater to bring Milarepa’s suffering and spiritual transformation to life, allowing the audience to connect with Milarepa’s life in new and vivid ways.
Milarepa: Tibet’s Supreme Yogi (A Play in Six Acts)
by the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
includes photos from the performance, images from the nineteen Milarepa thangkas, and paintings by the 8th Drugu Choegyal Rinpoche
ISBN: 978-1-934608-23-4
Coming in 2017 ~ Watch for Announcements!
His Holiness transmitted the entire life of Milarepa in a single, magnificent evening, a world-class theatrical event, for which 20,000 people turned out to view a play of Milarepa’s life created by His Holiness and performed by actors from the Tibetan Institute for the Performing Arts (TIPA). The Gyalwang Karmapa himself composed the script for the six-act play. His Holiness made full use of the genre of theater to bring Milarepa’s suffering and spiritual transformation to life, allowing the audience to connect with Milarepa’s life in new and vivid ways. According to TIPA, this was the largest theatrical event in Tibetan history.