Tibetan Buddhism Teachers

Karmapa is the head Lama of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism since the XII century. The first Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa (1110-1193) was a yogi from the Kham, a region in the eastern Tibet. He arrived to the monastery of Gampopa Sonam Rinchen (1079–1153), one of the most prominent Buddhist teachers of the time, a direct disciple of Milarepa, around 1140. Karmapa was already

Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje was born in 1924 in the cave of Guru Rinpoche. He was learning from the best teachers of his time, visited many holy places in Nepal and Tibet associated with the names of Buddha Shakyamuni and Guru Rinpoche. 16th Karmapa was taking an active part in part in Tibet's resistance when Chinese communist army was invading Tibet, but whe he

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