Karmapa, 17th

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Orgyen Trinley Dorje

Name Prefix	His Holiness
Title Suffix	the 17th Karmapa

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

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• Karmapa, 17th on the DRL
• Karmapa, 17th on the LIB
• Karmapa, 17th on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?
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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Which Wheel Turning
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
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What is Buddha-nature?
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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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
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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.
He is currently a resident in Dharamsala, India.

Main Teachers

• Thrangu Rinpoche
• Tai Situpa, 12th (pad+ma don yod nyin byed)
• Goshir Gyaltsab, 12th (grags pa bstan pa yar 'phel)
• Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.