The 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (Tibetan: རང་འབྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie: rang 'byung rdo rje) (1284–1339) was the 3rd Gyalwa Karmapa and head of the Karma...

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 Karmapa. The...

enjoyed any wide circulation, and many have been lost forever." Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama, (1284–1339) was an important systematizer of chöd teachings...

Orgyenpa, 1230–1312 CE Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama, 1284–1339 CE Yungtön Dorjepel, 1296–1376 CE Rolpe Dorje, 4th Karmapa Lama, 1340–1383 2nd Shamarpa, Khacho...

system of inheritance. The first recognized tulku was perhaps Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama. Giuseppe Tucci traced the origin of the tulku concept to Indian...

instrument to discredit the Dalai Lama. The group disbanded in 2016. That same year, the Dalai Lama re-stated his position on Dorje Shugden, saying "I've encouraged...

the land of Oddiyana. Ogyenpa had many disciples including Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama, Kharchupa (Wylie: mkhar chu pa, 1284—1339) and Tokden Daseng...

The 4th Karmapa, Rolpe Dorje (Standard Tibetan: རོལ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ེ་) (1340–1383) was the 4th Gyalwa Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu subschool of the...

Chödrak Gyatso, interpreted the nature of shentong accepted by Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama, who, in turn, had probably influenced and been influenced...

currently two, separately enthroned 17th Gyalwang Karmapas: Ogyen Trinley Dorje and Trinley Thaye Dorje. The Karmapa is the spiritual leader of the nine-hundred-year-old...