The City Hall of Bulach was filled to the brim with Tibetans who have come to receive the Karmapa’s blessings. After he arrived on stage and took his seat, young Tibetan women and men in traditional dress, standing in front of the audience sing a special song for the occasion. Drum, flute, bells, and the dranyen, sometimes called a Tibetan guitar, accompany their voices, while their song has the refrain, “Our place of trust is the Karmapa, the lama in who we can believe.”

དཔལ་༧རྒྱལ་དབང་༧ཀརྨ་པ་མཆོག་གིས་སུད་སིའི་ཛུ་རིཁ་རང་རིགས་རྣམས་ལ་དམིགས་བསལ་མཇལ་ཁ་དང་བླང་དོར་གྱི་བཀའ་སློབ་སྩལ་།