"First and foremost of the Tibetan tulkus, the 17th Gyalwa Karmpa have long been famous as th guiding light of the Karma Kagyu tradition and erstwhile gurus of the empoerors 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 stoires 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 talke of one of his former incrnations is that very place, as a famous king called Dzalendara.

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