Karma Kagyu is the largest lineage of the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Kagyu (Wylie transliteration: Bka-brgyud) school (known as the Oral Lineage and the Spotless Practice Lineage school) is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the other three being Nyingma (Rnying-ma), Sakya (Sa-skya), and Gelug (Dge-lugs). ...
Origins
The Karma Kagyu was founded by the first Karmapa, Je Dusum Khyenpa. It is headed by the Gyalwa Karmapa, a reincarnate lama. Followers believe that the Karmapa's appearance was predicted by the Buddha in the Samadhiraja Sutra (lit: Discourse on the King of Meditative Concentration). The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu (Bka rgyud), the largest of the lineages that make up the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. ... A stone image of the Buddha. ...
Teachings
The central teaching of the Karma Kagyu is the doctrine of Mahamudra or "Great Seal". This doctrine focuses on four principal stages of meditative practice (the Four Yogas of Mahamudra), namely: Mahamudra (Sanskrit: great seal) or Chagchen (Tibetan) is a method of direct introduction to the nature of Mind (or Buddha-nature) and the practice of stabilizing the accompanying transcendental realization. ...
The development of single-pointedness of mind,
The transcendence of all conceptual elaboration,
The cultivation of the perspective that all phenomena are of a "single taste",
The fruition of the path, which is beyond any contrived acts of meditation.
It is through these four stages of development that the practitioner is said to attain the perfect realization of Mahamudra.
The KarmaKagyu Institute is a non-profit, educational corporation.
Its purpose is to research, study, preserve and disseminate Tibetan arts and culture through the philosophical and psychological teachings of the Tibetan tradition, especially as propounded by the KarmaKagyu school of Buddhism.
The KarmaKagyu Institute is currently housed at the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery in Woodstock, New York.
The KagyuMahamudra lineage was later incorporated into the Gelug tradition by the First Panchen Lama, Lobsang Chökyi Gyeltsen (1570-1662) and is known as the Ganden-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra.
The Shangpa Kagyu, one of the two original forms of the Kagyu tradition, was founded by the great adept, Khyungpo Nyaljor (978-1079).
The present head of the KarmaKagyu tradition is H.H. XVII Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje.
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