Karmapa
Karmapa (počasni naslov Njegova svetost Gyalwa Karmapa, ponekad navođen i kao Gyalwang Karmapa) je poglavar Karma Kagyu, najveće podškole Kagyupa (tibetanski Bka' brgyud), jedne od četiri glavne škole tibetanskog budizma.
Historijsko sjedište Karmapa je manastir Tsurphu u dolini Tolung u Tibetu. Sjedište Njegove svetosti u izgnanstvu je Dharma Chakra Centre u manastiru Rumtek u indijskom Sikkimu. Njegovi regionalna monastička sjedišta su Karma Triyana Dharmachakra u New Yorku, Dhagpo Kagyu Ling u Francuskoj i Tashi Choling u Butanu.
Unutar škole Karma Kagyu je došlo do spora oko priznanja novog Karmape, pa identitet 17. Karmape nije univerzalno prihvaćen.
- Düsum Khyenpa (དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ་) (1110–1193)
- Karma Pakshi (ཀརྨ་པཀྵི་) (1204–1283)
- Rangjung Dorje (རང་འབྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1284–1339)
- Rolpe Dorje (རོལ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1340–1383)
- Deshin Shekpa (དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་)(1384–1415)
- Thongwa Dönden (མཐོང་བ་དོན་ལྡན་) (1416–1453)
- Chödrak Gyatso (ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་) (1454–1506)
- Mikyö Dorje (མི་བསྐྱོད་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1507–1554)
- Wangchuk Dorje (དབང་ཕྱུག་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1556–1603)
- Chöying Dorje (ཆོས་དབྱིངས་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1604–1674)
- Yeshe Dorje (ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1676–1702)
- Changchub Dorje (བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1703–1732)
- Dudul Dorje (བདུད་འདུལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1733–1797)
- Thekchok Dorje (ཐེག་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1798–1868)
- Khakyab Dorje (མཁའ་ཁྱབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1871–1922)
- Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (རང་འབྱུང་རིག་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་) (1924–1981)
- Spor oko toga da li je pravi Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje (ཕྲིན་ལས་མཐའ་ཡས་རྡོ་རྗེ།)(r. 1983) ili Ogyen Trinley Dorje (ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ།) (r. 1985)
- Thinley, Karma: The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet, Boulder, Prajna Press 1980
- Ken Holmes, Karmapa, Altea Publishing 1995, ISBN 0-9524555-4-4. Author's website Arhivirano 2004-12-05 na Wayback Machine-u (While the book and web site favours one candidate for the 17th the information on 1st-16th is useful and was the original source for this article)
- Maheshwari, Anil, The Buddha Cries!: Karmapa Conundrum, UBS Publishers' Distributors LTD. 2000, New Delhi, India. ISBN 81-7476-305-8
- Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art and Teachings of the Seventeenth Karmapa, Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje, Snow Lion Publications 2003, ISBN 1-55939-195-2
- Mick Brown, The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa, Bloomsbury 2005, ISBN 1-58234-598-8.
- Naher, Gaby. (2004). Wrestling the Dragon: In Search of the Boy Lama Who Defied China. Vintage Books, Random House. Sydney, Australia. ISBN 1-84413-231-5.
- "Buddha's Not Smiling: Uncovering Corruption at the Heart of Tibetan Buddhism Today" by Erik D. Curren, Alaya Press, Feb 2006, Paper. ISBN 0-9772253-0-5.
- Karmapa lineage history Arhivirano 2011-01-29 na Wayback Machine-u on kagyuoffice.org, the website of Ogyen Trinley Dorje
- Karmapa lineage history Arhivirano 2006-02-19 na Wayback Machine-u on karmapa.org, the website of Thaye Dorje
- Information on past and present Karmapas from khandro.net, a website supporting Ogyen Trinley Dorje