Milarepa Belt

Milarepa wore a meditation belt to receive his dharma teaching and practice. The sacred ‘Milarepa Meditation Belt' carries the blessings from the Kagyu lineage and the Three Jewels. Since the second Bakyoe Rinpoche – Karma Choeying, the sacred ‘Milarepa Mediation Belt' has been with the Ripa Bharma Monastery in Kham; it can only be seen and touched by His Holiness Karmapa – the supreme head of the Kagyu lineage. It was said that traditionally, whenever His Holiness Karmapa passed through to the area in Kham, he would make a special trip to Ripa Bharma Monastery to see the sacred ‘Milarepa Meditation Belt'.

When His Holiness the 17th Karmapa visited the Tibetan Refugee Settlements in South India in March 2005, he did the same and also conferred blessings ceremony to the villagers with this ‘Belt'. Furt her more, he gave cosent to Bakyoe Rinpoche to take the sacred ‘Milarepa Meditation Belt' from the monastery to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia for puja and empowerment during the fourth quarter of 2005.