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Karmapa

The 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924 - 1981)
Tibetan name
Tibetan: རྒྱལ་བ་ཀརྨ་པ་
Wylie transliteration: rgyal ba karma pa
Tournadre Phonetic: Karmapa
pronunciation in IPA: [kaːmapa]
official transcription (PRC): Garmaba
other transcriptions: —
Chinese name
traditional: 噶瑪巴
simplified: 噶玛巴
Pinyin: gámǎbā

The Karmapa (officially His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa (Tibetan Bka' brgyud), itself one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpei Dorje ( August 14, 1924 &ndash November 5, 1981) ( Wylie Rang 'byung rig pa'i Tibetan refers to a group of languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia as well as by overseas The Tibetan script is an Abugida of Indic origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Ladakhi language The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language Typewriter. Tibetan pinyin is the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in the People's Republic of China. Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use His Holiness is the official style or manner of address in reference to the leaders of certain religious groups Karma Kagyu ( or Kamtsang, is the largest lineage within the Kagyu school one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Kagyu or Kagyupa school also known as the " Oral Lineage " or Whispered Transmission school is one of four main schools of Himalayan The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language Typewriter. Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including

The historical seat of the Karmapas is Tsurphu Monastery in the Tolung valley of Tibet. Tsurphu Monastery (also Tolung Tsurpu / sTod lung mTshur phu is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery which served as the traditional seat of the Karmapa. Definitions of Tibet See also Definitions of Tibet Name In English The English word Tibet, like the word for Tibet in most European His Holiness' principal seat in exile is the Dharma Chakra Centre at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, India. Rumtek ( also called the Dharmachakra Centre, is a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Sikkim ( Nepali:, also Sikhim) is a Landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas It is the least populous state in India India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country His regional monastic seats are Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in New York, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling in France and Tashi Choling in Bhutan. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Woodstock, NY, USA, which serves as the North American seat New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Kingdom of Bhutan (buːˈtɑːn is a Landlocked nation in South Asia.

Due to a controversy within the Karma Kagyu school over the recognition process, the identity of the current 17th Karmapa is disputed. See Karmapa controversy for details. The recognition of the Seventeenth Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, has been the subject of controversy

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Origin of the lineage

The 1st Karmapa, Düsum Khyenpa (Dus gsum Mkhyen pa) (1110-1193), was a disciple of the Tibetan master Gampopa. Düsum Khyenpa ( (1110 &ndash 1193 was the 1st Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu (ka rma bka’ brgyud school of Tibetan Buddhism. Gampopa ( (1079-1153 "the man from Gampo" — who was equally well known in Tibet as Sonam Rinchen ( Dagpo Lhaje ( ("the Physician from Dagpo" A gifted child who studied dharma (Buddhist teachings) with his father from an early age and who sought out great teachers in his twenties and thirties, he is said to have attained enlightenment at the age of fifty while practicing dream yoga. The Sanskrit term ( Devanāgarī: धर्म Pali transliteration dhamma) is an Indian spiritual and religious Bodhi (बोधि is both the Pāli and Sanskrit word traditionally translated into English as "enlightenment Dream Yoga or Milam (T rmi-lam or nyilam; Ssvapnadarśana — the Yoga of the Dream State are a suite of advanced tantric Sadhana of the entwined He was henceforth regarded as the Karmapa, a manifestation of Avalokitesvara (Chenrezig), whose coming was predicted in the Samadhiraja Sutra[1] and the Lankavatara Sutra. Avalokiteśvara ( Nepali: अवलोकितेश्वर, lit The Laṇkāvatāra Sutra ( Chinese: 楞伽經 is a Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism. [2]

The source of the oral lineage is traditionally traced back to the Buddha Vajradhara, was transmitted to the Indian master of mahamudra and tantra Tilopa (989-1069), through Naropa (1016-1100) to Marpa and Milarepa. Vajradhara (SanskritVajradhāra Tibetan rdo rje 'chang (Dorje Chang English Vajraholder is the ultimate Primordial Buddha, or Adi Buddha, according to the Mahamudra (Sanskrit Mahāmudrā, Tibetan Chagchen, Wylie phyag chen, contraction of Chagya Chenpo, Wylie phyag rgya chen po) literally means Tantra ( Sanskrit: तन्त्र; " Weave " denoting continuity) tantricism or tantrism is any of several esoteric Tilopa ( Tibetan; Sanskrit: Talika, 988–1069 was born in either Chativavo ( Chittagong) Bengal or Jagora Bengal Events By Topic Education Sankore University is founded in Timbuktu. Nāropā ( Tibetan; Sanskrit: Nādapradā, 956-1041 was an Indian Buddhist mystic and Monk, the disciple of Marpa Lotsawa (1012-1097 or Marpa the translator was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Buddhist teachings to Jetsun Milarepa ( (c 1052-c 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet 's most famous Yogis and poets a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and These forefathers of the Kagyu (Bka' brGyud) lineage are collectively called the "golden rosary".

The 2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi (1204-1283), is often said to be the first person ever recognized and empowered as a tulku (sprul sku), a reincarnated lama (bla ma). Karma Pakshi ( 1203 &ndash 1283) was the 2nd Gyalwa Karmapa. He was a child prodigy who had already acquired a broad understanding of Dharma philosophy A tulku ( also tülku, trulku) is a Tibetan Buddhist Lama who has through Phowa and Siddhi, consciously Lama ( is a title for a Tibetan teacher

The Black Crown

Karmapa's Flag
Karmapa's Flag

The Karmapas are the holders of the Black Crown (Tibetan: Shanag; Wylie: Zhwa-nag) and are thus sometimes known as the Black Hat Lamas. The Black Crown ( is an important symbol of the Karmapa, the Lama that heads the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan refers to a group of languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia as well as by overseas The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language Typewriter. This crown (Tib. rang 'byung cod pan, lit. self-arisen crown), is traditionally said to have been woven by the dakinis from their hair and given to Karmapa in recognition of his spiritual realization. A Dakini ( Sanskrit: ḍākinī Tibetan: khandro; Wylie: mkha'-'gro-ma; TP: Kandroma; Chinese language The physical crown displayed by the Karmapas was offered to the 5th Karmapa by the Chinese Yongle Emperor as a material representation of the spiritual one. Deshin Shekpa (1384-1415 also Deshin Shegpa, was the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. The Yongle Emperor ( Wade-Giles: Yung-lo May 2, 1360 &ndash August 12, 1424) born Zhu Di ( Chu Ti

The crown was last known to be located at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, the last home of the 16th Karmapa, although that location has been subject to some upheaval since 1993 causing some to worry as to whether or not it is still there. Rumtek ( also called the Dharmachakra Centre, is a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Sikkim ( Nepali:, also Sikhim) is a Landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas It is the least populous state in India An inventory of items remaining at Rumtek is purported to be something the Indian government is going to undertake in the near future.

List of previous Karmapas

  1. Düsum Khyenpa (དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ་) (1110 - 1193)
  2. Karma Pakshi (ཀརྨ་པཀྵི་) (1204 - 1283)
  3. Rangjung Dorje (རང་འབྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1284 - 1339)
  4. Rolpe Dorje (རོལ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1340 - 1383)
  5. Deshin Shekpa (དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་)(1384 - 1415)
  6. Thongwa Dönden (མཐོང་བ་དོན་ལྡན་) (1416 - 1453)
  7. Chödrak Gyatso (ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་) (1454 - 1506)
  8. Mikyö Dorje (མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1507 - 1554)
  9. Wangchuk Dorje (དབང་ཕྱུག་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1556 - 1603)
  10. Chöying Dorje (ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1604 - 1674)
  11. Yeshe Dorje (ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྡྟེ་) (1676 - 1702)
  12. Changchub Dorje (བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1703 - 1732)
  13. Dudul Dorje (བདུད་འདུལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1733 - 1797)
  14. Thekchok Dorje (ཐེག་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1798 - 1868)
  15. Khakyab Dorje (མཁའ་ཁྱབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1871 - 1922)
  16. Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (རང་འབྱུང་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1924 - 1981)
  17. (Controversy over whether Ogyen Trinley Dorje (ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།) (b. Düsum Khyenpa ( (1110 &ndash 1193 was the 1st Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu (ka rma bka’ brgyud school of Tibetan Buddhism. Karma Pakshi ( 1203 &ndash 1283) was the 2nd Gyalwa Karmapa. He was a child prodigy who had already acquired a broad understanding of Dharma philosophy Rangjung Dorje ( Wylie: rang 'byung rdo rje) (b 1284 - d 1339 was the third Karmapa, an important figure in the history of Tibetan Buddhism Rolpe Dorje (རོལ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ེ་ (1340 &ndash 1383 was the fourth Gyalwa Karmapa. Deshin Shekpa (1384-1415 also Deshin Shegpa, was the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Thongwa Dönden (1416-1453 also Tongwa Donden, was the sixth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Chödrak Gyatso (1454–1506 also Chödrag Gyamtso, was the seventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Mikyö Dorje (1507–1554 also Mikyo Dorje, was the eighth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Wangchuk Dorje (1556-1603 was the ninth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Chöying Dorje (1604-1674 also Choying Dorje was the tenth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Yeshe Dorje (1676-1702 was the eleventh Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Year 1702 ( MDCCII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Changchub Dorje (1703-1732 also Chanchub Dorje, was the twelfth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Year 1703 ( MDCCIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1732 ( MDCCXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Dudul Dorje (1733-1797 was the thirteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Year 1733 ( MDCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Thekchok Dorje (1798-1868 also Thegchog Dorje, was the fourteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Year 1798 ( MDCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap The fifteenth Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje (1871-1922 spoke the mantra of Chenrezig " Om mani peme hung " at his birth in Sheikor village in Tsang province Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpei Dorje ( August 14, 1924 &ndash November 5, 1981) ( Wylie Rang 'byung rig pa'i Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The recognition of the Seventeenth Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, has been the subject of controversy Ogyen Trinley Dorje ( (b June 26, 1985) also written Urgyen Trinley Dorje ( or Orgyen Trinley Dorje or Ugyen Trinley Dorje 1985) or Trinley Thaye Dorje (མཐའ་ཡས་རྡོ་རྗེ།) (b. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Trinley Thaye Dorje ( (born 6 May, 1983, Lhasa, Tibet) is recognized by a number of Buddhist groups as a 17th Karmapa. 1983) is the true Karmapa). Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)

Notes

  1. ^ Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. King of Samadhi Sutra: Oral commentaries given in Rinpoche's monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal, January 1993
  2. ^ The Lankavatara Sutra

References

External links

The history of the Karmapa lineage, including biographical details of the historical Karmapas, can be found at the following web sites. Notice that the websites are written to those loyal to one or other of the rival 17th Karmapas, and their accounts of previous incarnations may not be written from a neutral point of view.

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