Dorjee, Dudjom

Dorjee, Dudjom on the DRL

Tibetan Buddhist Teachers

English Phonetics	Dorjee Dudjom

Alternate names

• Lama Dorjee Dudjom Rinpoche

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Other Biographical info:

Born to a nomadic family in eastern Tibet, Lama Dudjom Dorjee Rinpoche grew up in India and received a distinguished Acharya degree from Sanskrit University in Varanasi. In 1981, at the request of the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, he came to the United States as a representative of the Karma Kagyu lineage. He is presently Resident Lama of Karma Thegsum Choling in Dallas, Texas.

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• Dorjee, Dudjom on the DRL
• Dorjee, Dudjom on the LIB

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.