Office Buddhist traditions
Karmapa
ཀརྨ་པ་ bo 噶玛巴 zh カルマパ ja
Head of the Karma Kagyu, a sect of Tibetan Buddhism
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
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Succession in office
Who held it, in order
A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.
- 8 holders
- 1 overlap
- 6 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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from 1204 CE Karma Pakshi Tibetan Buddhist religious figure (1204–1283) -
Overlap held at the same time as Karma Pakshi
1384 CE – 1415 CE Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama Karmapa Lama
No dates recorded 6
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Dates unrecorded Mikyo Dorje karmapas (1507-1554) -
Dates unrecorded Rangjung Dorje, 3rd Karmapa Lama Third Karmapa, an important figure in the history of Tibetan Buddhism -
Dates unrecorded Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama Tibetan Lama -
Dates unrecorded Rolpe Dorje, 4th Karmapa Lama Fourth Gyalwa Karmapa -
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Dates unrecorded His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje Tibetan Lama -
Dates unrecorded Dudul Dorje, 13th Karmapa Lama Karmapas
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
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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