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XVI KARMAPA
The 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje was one of the greatest Buddhist teachers and meditation masters of his time. He was born in 1924 in the kingdom of Derge in eastern Tibet. In 1931 the 16th Karmapa received monastic ordination and began his studies at the traditional seat of the Karmapas — Tsurpu Monastery.
XVII KARMAPA
The 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje was born in Tibet on 6 May 1983, the son of Mipha Rinpoche and Dechen Wangmo. In 1994 his entire family fled occupied Tibet to Nepal and then to India. In March of that year the young Karmapa came to New Delhi, where he was officially recognized and proclaimed Karmapa by Shamar Rinpoche.
LAMA OLE NYDAHL
Lama Ole Nydahl is one of the few highly qualified lamas and meditation teachers in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. Together with his wife Hannah, they became the first Western students of the greatest meditation master of their time — the 16th Karmapa — in 1969.
HANNAH NYDAHL
In December 1969 Hannah Nydahl and her husband Ole became the first Western students of the greatest meditation master of their time — the 16th Karmapa — and then at his request began transmitting the Diamond Way teachings in Europe and both Americas.