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| Map of Tibet | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Translators' Word | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa (1110-1193) | |
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| Birth in Eastern Tibet | |
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| Central Tibet, a Melting Pot of Buddhist Sciences | |
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| Gampopa and the Kagyu Lineage | |
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| "The Three Men of Kham" | |
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| Transmissions | |
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| Enlightenment and the Black Crown | |
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| Prophesied by the Buddha | |
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| A Great Activity | |
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| Return to Central Tibet | |
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| Last Testament and Tulkus | |
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| The Ultimate Meditation | |
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| The Golden Rosary | |
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| The Second Karmapa, Karma Pakshi (1204-1283) | |
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| "Blessed by the Dakinis" | |
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| Establishing the Monastic Code | |
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| A Great Activity | |
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| The Mongols Become Interested in Tibet | |
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| First Trip to Kubila� Khan | |
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| The Powerful Mongka Khan | |
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| Kubila� Khan's Revenge | |
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| The Statue of the "Ornament of the World" | |
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| Tsurphu, Blessed Land of the Karmapas | |
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| Numerous Prophetic Visions | |
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| An Extraordinary Death | |
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| The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339) | |
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| "The Moon Has Risen" | |
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| Meeting with the Accomplished Orgyenpa | |
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| Journey to Eastern Tibet and Continuation of Study | |
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| Peregrinations in Tibet | |
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| In Khanbalik (Beijing) with the Mongol Emperors | |
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| Return to Tibet | |
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| The Karmapa in the Moon | |
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| The Fourth Karmapa, Rolpe Dorje (1340-1383) | |
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| "I Will Have Many Disciples" | |
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| First Encounters with His Masters | |
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| Tibet in Turmoil | |
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| Studies at Tsurphu | |
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| Restoring Ties with the Mongol Emperor | |
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| Meeting with the Young Tsongkhapa | |
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| At the Imperial Court in Khanbalik (Beijing) | |
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| Return to Tibet | |
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| Incessant Journeys throughout the Land of Snows | |
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| The Fifth Karmapa, Deshin Shekpa (1384-1415) | |
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| "I Bow before All the Buddhas" | |
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| In Nanjing, at the Court of the Ming Dynasty | |
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| "The Hundred Marvelous Acts" and the Black Crown | |
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| Peace and Harmony | |
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| Emergence of the Geluk Lineage | |
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| The Prophecy | |
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| Rainbows and Rain of Flowers | |
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| The Sixth Karmapa, Thongwa Donden (1416-1453) | |
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| "lam the Unborn, Free of Names and Places" | |
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| Recognition of the Tulku | |
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| Liturgies and the Buddhist Canon | |
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| The Great Encampment of the Karmapa | |
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| Tangtong Gyelpo, Bridges, and Goddesses | |
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| The Regency | |
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| The Seventh Karmapa, Ch�drak Gyamtso (1454-1506) | |
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| "For Me, There Is Neither Birth Nor Death" | |
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| Way of Life and Teachings | |
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| Philosophical Education through Debate | |
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| In the Fortress of the Rinpung Princes | |
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| The Next Pearl | |
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| "You Must Emanate Many Incarnations of Yourself " | |
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| The Eighth Karmapa, Miky� Dorje (1507-1554) | |
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| "Do Not Doubt, I Am the Karmapa" | |
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| Enthronement and Numerous Visions | |
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| With the King of Jang | |
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| The Root Lama | |
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| The "Adamantine Sow" | |
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| Master of the Arts | |
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| Maturity and Activity | |
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| Taking on of Illness | |
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| The Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje (15 56-1603) | |
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| An Itinerant Life | |
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| A Gigantic Thangka and Ritual Dances | |
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| A Complex Political Situation | |
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| The Emergence of the Dalai Lamas | |
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| From Southern Tibet to Sikkim | |
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| Embalming | |
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| The Tenth Karmapa, Ch�ying Dorje (1604-1674) | |
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| A Gifted Child | |
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| Central Tibet in Great Upheaval | |
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| A Long Journey | |
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| Mongol Surge | |
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| Thirty Years in Exile | |
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| Return to Lhasa | |
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| The Eleventh Karmapa, Yeshe Dorje (1676-1702) | |
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| "I Am the Karmapa" | |
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| Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Spiritual Treasures and Their Revealers | |
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| A Great Activity | |
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| The Twelfth Karmapa, Jangchtub Dorje (1703-1732) | |
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| Childhood in Kham | |
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| "The Land of Meditators" | |
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| The Mongol Tribes Strengthen the Pressure | |
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| To Nepal and India | |
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| The Eighth Tai Situpa and the Derge Printing House | |
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| Last Journey | |
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| Passing of Two Masters | |
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| The Funerary Stupas of the Karmapas | |
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| The Thirteenth Karmapa, Ductal Dorje (1733-1797) | |
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| Birth in Southern Tibet | |
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| Miracles and Consecrated Pills | |
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| The Passing of His Master, the Eighth Tai Situpa | |
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| Monasteries and Monks | |
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| Troubles in Nepal and Effects on the Shamarpas | |
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| The Passing | |
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| The Fourteenth Karmapa, Thekchok Dorje (1798-1868) | |
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| First Years | |
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| The Rim� Movement | |
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| The Great Tert�n | |
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| A Vision of Twenty-One Karmapas | |
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| The "Wild Situpa" | |
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| Bestowing Transmissions | |
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| The Fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyab Dorje (1871-1922) | |
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| A Canopy of Rainbows | |
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| With His Masters | |
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| The Death of Old Khyentse | |
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| Link with Bhutan | |
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| A Tert�n Karmapa | |
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| A Family of Tulkus | |
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| The Great Dakini of Tsurphu | |
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| The Two Last Testaments | |
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| The Sixteenth Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1914-1981) | |
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| First Years in Eastern Tibet | |
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| To Central Tibet | |
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| An Undisciplined Disciple | |
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| A Journey Full of Surprises | |
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| Studies at Palpung | |
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| Return to Central Tibet | |
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| First Journey to India and Nepal | |
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| The Karmapa's Animals | |
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| Tibet in Difficulty Transmissions | |
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| Travel in China | |
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| Second Pilgrimage to India Exile | |
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| In Sikkim | |
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| New Monastery in Rumtek | |
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| Helping the Tulkus | |
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| Three Masters in One | |
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| The Karmapa and the West | |
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| Alleviating the Suffering of Beings | |
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| The Great Departure | |
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| His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (born in 1985) | |
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| "He Who Brings Happiness" | |
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| The Last Testament | |
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| Enthronement Ceremony at Tsurphu | |
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| Tsurphu's Revival | |
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| Intensive Training and Constant Surveillance | |
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| The Escape from Tibet | |
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| From Nepal to India | |
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| His Teachers | |
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| The Kagyu Monlam | |
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| Bodhisattva Activity | |
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| The Black Crowns of the Karmapa | |
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| The Lineage of the Golden Rosary | |
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| The Different Incarnation Lineages in the Karma Kagyu Tradition | |
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| The Principal Contemporary Masters of the Karma Kagyu Tradition | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Persons | |