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Describing the Events
to the Karmapa

  
H.H. the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, 1998.

At 2 p.m. on the afternoon of the next day, August 5, 1996, the search party arrived at Tsurphu monastery. They were feeling very happy, and proceeded to the Karmapa's chambers. He was very calm as they related everything to him, and showed him the photographs they had taken, which he looked at very carefully. They told the Karmapa about the child they had met and said that all of the signs, except the name of his mother, had matched very well with his prophecy. The mother's name, Yangkyi, did not include either of the alphabets in the Karmapa's letter about the Third Jamgon Kongtrul's rebirth. However, the Karmapa replied that that was fine, as it contained an alphabet from within the same group as the one he had predicted.*

When they described the family's home to the Karmapa, he took out a house that he had constructed from his Lego toy set and asked the party present if the family's home resembled what he had built. They were surprised, and said that it did look like that. It was getting late, and the Karmapa told them to take a rest and return to see him the next morning.