The 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje was the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and the spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is of the oldest line of reincarnate lamas in Vajrayana B
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Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, seated, with Freda Bedi at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, 1971
Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa with Pope Paul VI, January 17, 1975.
1965 photo of Karmapa in Sikkim by Dr. Alice S. Kandell
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Ogyen Trinley Dorje, also written as Urgyen Trinley Dorje is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.
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…Rumtek Monastery, was built then officially inaugurated in 1966. The traditional Tibetan seat of the Karmapa, Tsurphu Monastery, from where the Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje escaped in 1999, still exists while the number of monks is restricted by the Chinese government. In the beginning of the 1970s the Karmapa made the…
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"Gyalwa Karmapa" (Ogyen Trinley Dorje), a portrait by Claude-Max Lochu, exhibition for the project of Temple for Peace in France, 2008