Karmapa, 17th

 

PersonType	Category:Tulkus Category:Authors of English Works Category:Authors of Tibetan Works
FirstName / namefirst	Orgyen
LastName / namelast	Dorje
namemiddle	Trinley
MainNamePhon	The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje
MainNameTib	རྒྱལ་བ་ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།
MainNameWylie	rgyal ba karma pa o rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje
nameprefix	His Holiness
namesuffix	the 17th Karmapa
bio	His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje is the head of the 900-year-old Karma Kagyu Lineage and guide to millions of Buddhists around the world. Orgyen Trinley Dorje is a Tibetan practitioner and scholar, a painter, poet, songwriter and playwright, an environmental and social justice activist, and world spiritual leader who uses modern technology, such as Facebook and other digital platforms, to teach Buddhism and bring the Karma Kagyu lineage’s activities fully into the 21st century. You can see some of the projects he has initiated on Adarsha or Dharma Treasures: Digital Toolbox & Dharma Books News and links to teachings from His Holiness Long Life Prayer for Shamar Rinpoche with HH Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje Facebook - Live Teachings and News Karmapa Biography from kagyuoffice.org Karmapa Biography from kagyu.org
YearBirth	1985
BornIn	lha thog
religiousaffiliation	Karma Kagyu
StudentOf	Thrangu Rinpoche  ·  Twelfth Tai Situ Pema Dönyö Nyinje  ·  Twelfth Goshir Gyaltsab Drakpa Tenpa Yarpel  ·  Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
IsInGyatsa	No
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Names

Tibetan: ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ་

Wylie:

• o rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje
• o rgyan 'gro 'dul 'phrin las rdo rje
• karma pa 17 o rgyan 'phrin las
• karmapa 17

Other Transliterations in use:

• Ogyen Trinley Dorje
• Orgyen Trinley Dorje
• Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje
• Orgyen Drodul Trinley Dorje
• Ogyen Drodül Trinley Dorje
• Orgyen Drodül Trinley Dorje
• 17th Karmapa
• Seventeenth Karmapa

Dates

Born: 1985 lha thog
Died:

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P5611

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.org

Important incarnation of the karma kaM tshang tradition.
He has been recognized as the re-embodiment of the 16th Karmapa by the 14th Dalai Lama, Ta'i Situ, and a number of other masters of the kaM tshang bka' brgyud tradition.

Main Teachers

• Thrangu Rinpoche
• Twelfth Tai Situ Pema Dönyö Nyinje (pad+ma don yod nyin byed)
• Twelfth Goshir Gyaltsab Drakpa Tenpa Yarpel (grags pa bstan pa yar 'phel)
• Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso

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.