Person:Karmapa, 17th

Karmapa, 17th
File:Karmapa17 300 001.JPG The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje (1985 - )
Tibetan Language name
Tibetan:	རྒྱལ་བ་ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།
Wylie transliteration:	rgyal ba karma pa o rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje
Tournadre Phonetic:	Karmapa
pronunciation in IPA:	[kaːmapa]
Tibetan Pinyin official transcription (PRC):	Garmaba
other transcriptions:	—
Chinese name
traditional:	噶瑪巴
simplified:	噶玛巴
Pinyin:	gámǎbā

Names

Tibetan: ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ་

Wylie:

• o rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje
• o rgyan 'gro 'dul 'phrin las rdo rje
• karma pa 17 o rgyan 'phrin las
• karmapa 17

Other Transliterations in use:

• Ogyen Trinley Dorje
• Orgyen Trinley Dorje
• Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje
• Orgyen Drodul Trinley Dorje
• Ogyen Drodül Trinley Dorje
• Orgyen Drodül Trinley Dorje
• 17th Karmapa
• Seventeenth Karmapa

Dates

Born: 1985 lha thog
Died:

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P5611

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.org

Important incarnation of the karma kaM tshang tradition.
He has been recognized as the re-embodiment of the 16th Karmapa by the 14th Dalai Lama, Ta'i Situ, and a number of other masters of the kaM tshang bka' brgyud tradition.
He is currently a resident in Dharamsala, India.

Main Teachers

• Thrangu Rinpoche
• Tai Situpa, 12th (pad+ma don yod nyin byed)
• Goshir Gyaltsab, 12th (grags pa bstan pa yar 'phel)
• Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim

Writings

• Works by Karmapa, 17th in the research library