Karmapa, 8th

Karmapa, 8th on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors • Tulkus

མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ་

Wylie	mi bskyod rdo rje
English Phonetics	Eighth Karmapa Mikyö Dorje

Himalayan Art Resources

Other names

• ཀརྨ་པ་བརྒྱད་པ་
• ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་

• karma pa brgyad pa
• chos kyi grags pa dpal bzang po

Alternate names

• Karmapa, 8th

Dates

Birth:	1507
Death:	1554
Place of birth:	ngom chu g.yas lung (nang chen)

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Month
Gender	Female
Element	Fire
Animal	Rabbit
Rab Jyung	9

Dates of passing

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Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Karma Kagyu

Has following emanations

Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje

Teachers

Tai Situpa, 2nd · Sangye Nyenpa, 1st · Tai Situpa, 3rd · byams chen chos rje sna tshogs rang grol · karma phrin las pa

Students

Pawo Rinpoche, 2nd · Shamarpa, 5th · Tai Situpa, 4th

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P385

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/en/biographies/view/biography/6230

Wiki Pages

• Karmapa, 8th on the DRL
• Karmapa, 8th on the LIB
• Karmapa, 8th on the DNZ
• Karmapa, 8th on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

The eighth member of the incarnation lineage of the Karmapas, Mikyö Dorje, was a prolific scholar and an acclaimed artist, often credited with the development of the Karma Gadri style of painting. Though he only lived into his mid-40's his contributions to the Karma Kagyu and Tibetan tradition, in general, were immense. His collected works are said to have originally filled thirty volumes and he is widely held to be one of the most significant of the Karmapa incarnations.

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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.