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...

the passing of the 16th Karmapa, a controversy within the Karma Kagyu school over the recognition process of a second Karmapa occurred. The identity of...

Buddhism that characterize the 17th Karmapa controversy. Originally built under the direction of Changchub Dorje, 12th Karmapa Lama in the mid-18th century,...

Buddhism was founded as a way to protect established centers during the Karmapa controversy. As of 2019[update], there were 635 Diamond Way centers throughout...

figure in the current controversy within the Karma Kagyu lineage. He recognised Ogyen Trinley Dorje as the current (17th) Karmapa, as opposed to Trinley...

Thaye Dorje, one of two claimants to the title of the 17th Karmapa (See Karmapa Controversy). Buddhist teachers such as Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche, Lama...

telling people that he was the Karmapa. (The identification of the 17th Karmapa is disputed. See Karmapa controversy) In October 1986 Chobgye Tri Rinpoche...

Jamgon Kongtrul and the 12th Goshir Gyaltsab. There is controversy over who is the 17th Karmapa, with two major candidates both having been recognized...

(Wylie: U-rgyan 'Phrin-las Rdo-rje) is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa. The Karmapa is head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of...

Karmapa. The Karmapas are sometimes referred to as the Black Hat Lamas, referring to their distinctive, black crown. Karma Pakshi, the second Karmapa...