Khenpo Karthar

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Abbots Category:Khenpos Category:Ordained (Monks and Nuns) Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
FirstName / namefirst	Khenpo
LastName / namelast	Karthar
MainNamePhon	Khenpo Karthar
bio	Born in eastern Tibet in 1924, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche was one of the great masters of the Karma Kagyu tradition. Rinpoche, who received most of his training and education in Tibet before the Chinese invasion, was highly accomplished in meditation, philosophy, and monastic arts. As abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmacakra Monastery (KTD) in Woodstock, New York; spiritual guide of thirty-five Karma Thegsum Choling (KTC) affiliate centers; and retreat master at the Karme Ling Retreat Center in Delhi, New York, Rinpoche touched the lives of thousands of students. He was also known for numerous books, including The Quintessence of the Union of Mahamudra and Dzokchen; Dharma Paths; Instructions of Gampopa; Bardo: Interval of Possibility; The Wish-Fulfilling Wheel: The Practice of White Tara; and the five-volume masterwork Karma Chakme’s Mountain Dharma.
YearBirth	1924
YearDeath	2019
BornIn	Kham, Tibet
affiliation	Karma Triyana Dharmacakra Monastery (KTD)
religiousaffiliation	Karma Kagyu
IsInGyatsa	No
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Names

Wylie: ADDWYLIEHERE


Other Transliterations in use:
Karma Tharchin Rinpoche
Venerable Khenpo Karma Tharchin Rinpoche
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

Dates

b. 1924

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

Three successive stages of the Buddhist teachings. Though they are traditionally attributed to the historical Buddha, modern scholarship tends to view them as developmental stages that occurred over the course of an extended period of time, with interludes of several centuries, in which we see major doctrinal shifts often based on seemingly newly emergent scriptural sources.