This is the masterful profile of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the great Tibetan Buddhist master known for the Black Crown ceremony. His line of successive reincarnations has its origins in the 13th century when the first Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, left a letter predicting the birth of his next reincarnation, or tulku, the first of many Tibetan Buddhist teachers to be identified this way.