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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

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Family tree

The family as a list · 3

Family 3

Teachers and students

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

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