Karmapa, 17th

Karmapa, 17th on the DRL

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རྒྱལ་བ་ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།

Wylie	rgyal ba karma pa o rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje
English Phonetics	The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje
Name Prefix	His Holiness
Title Suffix	the 17th Karmapa

 

Dates

Birth:	1985
Place of birth:	lha thog

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Karma Kagyu

Teachers

Thrangu Rinpoche · Tai Situpa, 12th · Goshir Gyaltsab, 12th · Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim

Biographical Information

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

Links

Wiki Pages

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

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

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.

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.