// The Gyalwang Karmapa Attends the North American Kagyu Monlam for the First Time //

The white peaks of the huge tent for the Monlam shone bright among the sur...rounding buildings in Queens like stylized mountains from another world. And indeed, inside the structure, which filled the playing field of York College, the space had been transformed into a Tibetan Buddhist shrine hall by the organizers of the event, the Danang Foundation. Their months of hard work were supplemented by His Holiness, who spent many hours yesterday including from that evening late into the night helping to arrange and rearrange the altar until it was just right.