The Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (Tibetan: རང་འབྱུང་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie: Rang 'byung rig pa'i rdo rje; August 14, 1924 – November...

Trinley Thaye Dorje (Tibetan: ཕྲིན་ལས་མཐའ་ཡས་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie: Phrin-las Mtha'-yas Rdo-rje) (born 6 May 1983 in Lhasa) is a claimant to the title of 17th...

Ogyen Trinley Dorje (Tibetan: ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།, Wylie: O-rgyan 'Phrin-las Rdo-rje, Chinese: 鄔金欽列多傑; born 26 June 1985), also written as Urgyen...

(1871–1922) Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (རང་འབྱུང་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1924–1981) Ogyen Trinley Dorje (ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།) (b. 1985) or Trinley Thaye Dorje...

of the previous Karmapa's principal disciples holds the lineage. Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa left the lineage in the hands of four eminent lamas:...

Hannah Nydahl and Ole Nydahl in Copenhagen under the guidance of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa. Today there are approximately 650 centers worldwide...

the late Mindrolling Trichen, Khandro Rinpoche was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa at the age of two as the reincarnation of the Great...

Thong Dhammacak) Korean Buddhist swastika flag Karma Kagyu flag (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa's "dream flag"). The flag of the Soka Gakkai movement...

The fourteenth Shamarpa was recognised by the sixteenth Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. In 1956, Shamar Rinpoche and his brother, Lama Jigme Rinpoche, went...

Buddhism, Gelongma Karma Tsultim Khechog Palmo, Ed Palmo, 1976 Wangchuk Dorje (Karmapa IX), Zhar dMar dKon mChog Yan Lag, Mahamudra meditation or The...

renowned Mahamudra masters and transmitted the innermost teachings to Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa. On many occasions he gave teachings, empowerments...

Darjeeling in 1965. The monastery was near Rumtek, the seat of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa. In the late 1960s Kalu Rinpoche began to attract Western...

second Dudjom Rinpoche (Jigdral Yeshe Dorje), Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and the sixteenth Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje). He was asked to teach by the leaders...

seat of the Karma Kagyu lineage in Sikkim for some time. But when Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, arrived in Sikkim in 1959 after fleeing Tibet, the...

successive Karmapa incarnations up to and including the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje. In preparation for the ceremony the Karmapa meditates on inseparability...

teachings. Born into a Nepalese Sherpa family, Gyalwa was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa as the Fourth Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, the reincarnation...

Switzerland. Chogyam Trungpa, later under the guidance of the Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje), established institutions in the United States such as Naropa Institute...

Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born into the family of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, he is the brother of the late 14th Shamar Rinpoche...

has historically been associated with the Karmapas: for instance, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, was enthroned first at Palpung before traveling to...

Gangtok market, Sikkim The 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, religious leader of Sikkim Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, seated, with a monk,...

(1916–1983), the acting head of the Drukpa Kagyu, and, shortly thereafter, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa (1924–1981), the head of the Karma Kagyu, independently...

in San Francisco. In 1974, she became a novice Buddhist nun under Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa. In Hong Kong in 1981 she became the...

Ole 10. Under the spiritual direction of The 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje Hannah Nydahl and Ole Nydahl Founded Diamond Way Buddhism, a Buddhist...

Buddhism, the term has been discredited. Another term, "Vajrayāna" (Tibetan: dorje tegpa) is occasionally misused for Tibetan Buddhism. More accurately, Vajrayāna...

1980 luncheon in honor of the 16th Karmapa (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje) at the U S Capitol. Tibetan Buddhists (seated left to right) Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche...

master Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche. In December 1969, the Nydahls met Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage. Nine years after...

His birth was prophesied by the supreme head of the Kagyu lineage, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, to Ponlop Rinpoche's parents, Dhamchö Yongdu, the...

(b. 1909) 1980 – Louis Alter, American musician (b. 1902) 1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924) 1985 – Arnold Chikobava...

the supporters of the previous Karmapa, who had already recognised Rangjung Rigpe Dorje as the new Karmapa. However, as the child fell from a roof and died...

high degree of independence and autonomy. Following the death of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa in 1981, followers came to disagree over the identity...