Person:Karmapa, 16th

Karmapa, 16th
File:Karmapa16.jpg The 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924 - 1981)
Tibetan Language name
Tibetan:	རྒྱལ་བ་ཀརྨ་པ་
Wylie transliteration:	rgyal ba karma pa
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: རང་བྱུང་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་

Wylie:

• rang byung rig pa'i rdo rje
• rig pa'i rdo rje
• karma pa 16 rang byung rig pa'i rdo rje
• karmapa 16

Other Transliterations in use:

• Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
• Rigpe Dorje
• 16th Karmapa
• Sixteenth Karmapa

Dates

Born: 1924 'dan khog
Died: 1981

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P865

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.org

Important hierarch of the kamtsang kagyu tradition.
1931 - Installed at dpal-spungs dgon.
Built the gling-kha dar-rgyas-chos-gling.

Main Students

• Jamgön Kongtrül, 3rd (karma blo gros chos kyi seng+ge)
• grags pa yongs 'dus
• ugyen rinpoche
• Goshir Gyaltsab, 12th (grags pa bstan pa yar 'phel)
• Tai Situpa, 12th (pad+ma don yod nyin byed)
• Shamarpa, 13th (mi pham chos kyi blo gros)

Main Teachers

• thub bstan rgya mtsho
• thub bstan chos kyi rdo rje
• Tai Situpa, 11th (pad+ma dbang mchog rgyal po)
• Jamgön Kongtrül, 2nd (mkhyen brtse'i 'od zer)
• karma bshad sgrub chos kyi seng ge
• 'jam dbyangs chos kyi blo gros

Writings

• Works by Karmapa, 16th in the research library