Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.

Tulku Thondup (1939 CE-), Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was recognised at the age of four as the reincarnation of a famous scholar of the Dodrupchen monastery,and studied various Buddhist texts, becoming the monastery’s ritual master.