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Encyclopedia > Thaye Dorje
Tibetan Buddhism
Name: His Holiness Trinley Thaye Dorje,
the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa
Birth: 6 May 1983
Lhasa, Tibet
School/tradition: Karma Kagyu

Trinley Thaye Dorje (Tibetan: ཕྲིན་ལས་མཐའ་ཡས་རྡོ་རྗེ་; Wylie: Phrin-las Mtha'-yas Rdo-rje) (born 6 May 1983, Lhasa, Tibet) is recognized by many followers as the 17th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ... Image File history File linksMetadata 17-Karmapa-Lon. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lhasa prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha-sa; Simplified Chinese: 拉萨; Traditional Chinese: 拉薩; pinyin: Lāsà), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Karma Kagyu is the largest lineage of the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language typewriter. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lhasa prefecture-level city in Tibet Autonomous Region Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha-sa; Simplified Chinese: 拉萨; Traditional Chinese: 拉薩; pinyin: Lāsà), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... This article is becoming very long. ... The Karmapa (officially His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ད་ཀར་མ་པ་) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa (Tib. ... The Kagyu (Tibetan: བཀའབརྒྱུད་; Wylie: Bka-brgyud) school, also 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). ... Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ...

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Biography

Trinley Thaye Dorje is the son of Mipham Rinpoche, a reincarnation of an important lama of the Nyingmapa school, and Dechen Wangmo, the daughter of a noble family descended from King Gesar of Ling. [1] At the age of six months the boy started telling people that he was the Karmapa. [2] (The identification of the 17th Karmapa is disputed. See Karmapa controversy) This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug). ... The Epic of King Gesar is a Tibetan epic poem about King Gesar, who ruled the mythical Kingdom of Ling. ... The Karmapa lineage is the most ancient tulku lineage in Tibetan Buddhism, pre-dating the Dalai Lama lineage by more than two centuries. ...


In 1988 Shamar Rinpoche went on a secret visit to Lhasa to investigate whether Thaye Dorje was the reincarnation of the Karmapa, because the boy appeared to him in a dream. [3] In March 1994, Thaye Dorje and his family escaped from Tibet to Nepal and then to India, where Shamar Rinpoche formally recognized him as the 17th Karmapa. [1] In 1994 Thaye Dorje was enthroned by the 14th Kunzig Shamarpa as the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute in New Dehli, India. [1] 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shamarpa (Holder of the Red Crown), also known as Shamar Rinpoche, is a lineage holder of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... This article is about the urban region which is the capital of India. ...


Eastern and western education

Trinley Thaye Dorje in ceremonial costume
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Trinley Thaye Dorje in ceremonial costume

Thaye Dorje subsequently began an intense period of traditional monastic training. He has received training and transmissions in Buddhist philosophy and practice from some of the finest Tibetan and Indian Buddhist scholars and masters alive. His teachers have included the 14th Shamar Rinpoche, Professor Sempa Dorje and Khenpo Chödrak Tenphel. As a result of this, Thaye Dorje was enthroned as Vidhyadhara (Knowledge Holder) by the 14th Shamarpa in December 2003 at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute. [4] Image File history File links Karmapa_17_Trinley. ... Image File history File links Karmapa_17_Trinley. ... Shamarpa (Holder of the Red Crown), also known as Shamar Rinpoche, is a lineage holder of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. ...


Alongside this traditional Buddhist training, Thaye Dorje has received a modern Western education from English and Australian tutors and an intensive introduction to Western philosophy from Professor Harrison Pemberton of Washington and Lee University in the USA. [5] Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, located adjacent to (but not affiliated with) Virginia Military Institute. ...


Thaye Dorje currently lives in Kalimpong, India where he continues the thorough traditional education required for a holder of the Karmapa title. On May 17, 2006 Thaye Dorje was officially appointed as the legal and administrative heir of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, and can therefore use the Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. Because the political climate is still unstable, the headquarters will remain in Kalimpong for now. [6] Kalimpong is a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... The sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpei Dorje (1924-1981)(Wylie Rang byung rig pai rdo rje) was spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of [Tibetan Buddhism]]. He was born in Denkhok in the Dergé district of Kham (Eastern Tibet), near the Yangtze River. ... Rumtek monastery Rumtek (Tibetan: རུམ་ཐེག་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: Rum-theg dGon-pa), also called the Dharmachakra Centre, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Gangtok. ... Sikkim (also Sikhim) (DevanāgarÄ«: सिक्किम  ) is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. ...


References

  1. ^ a b c Diamondway-Buddhism Biography Thaye Trinley Dorje. (Retrieved: September 18, 2006)
  2. ^ Karmapa Thaye Dorje, Het Boeddhistische boek van Wijsheid van Liefde, page 52, 9080582352 (dutch translation. original title: Le livre bouddhiste de la sagesse et de l'amour)
  3. ^ Karmapa Thaye Dorje, Het Boeddhistische boek van Wijsheid van Liefde, page 60 and 61, 9080582352 (dutch translation. original title: Le livre bouddhiste de la sagesse et de l'amour)
  4. ^ Vienna Dharma Project Vidyadhara Ceremony of the 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje (Retrieved: September 18, 2006)
  5. ^ Washington and Lee University Pemberton Teaches Western Philosophy in India. (Retrieved: September 18, 2006)
  6. ^ Karmapa Charitable Trust: Announcement from the Council of His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa (pdf file) Retrieved: Aug 18, 2006

See also

The Karmapa (officially His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa; Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ད་ཀར་མ་པ་) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa (Tib. ... Karma Kagyu is the largest lineage of the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. ... The Karmapa lineage is the most ancient tulku lineage in Tibetan Buddhism, pre-dating the Dalai Lama lineage by more than two centuries. ...

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