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Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa

ཀརྨ་པ ༡༦་རང་བྱུང་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ། bo 第十六世噶瑪巴·讓炯日佩多傑 zh カルマパ16世ランジュン・リクペードルジェ ja

Karmapas (1924–1981)

  • Child of Tsewang Püntsok and Kalzang Drolma
  • Dated 14 August 1924 CE – 5 November 1981 CE
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A life on the record,
dated by its sources.

Roles, not beliefs

Overview

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Life

Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

Belonged to

Offices held 1

  1. Dates unrecorded abbot

Family

The family of Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa

Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.

Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.

As documented
The family as a list · 3

Family 3

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

What this means

In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.

Studied under 6

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Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Karmapas (1924–1981)

Taught 16

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Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

28 statements on this record

  • 23 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 5 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

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Data
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Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
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Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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