Tekchok Dorje
The 14th Karmapa, Theckchok Dorje (1798–1868), also Thegchog Dorje, was the 14th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Theckchok Dorje was born in Danang, Kham, Tibet, and was recognized by Drukchen Kunzig Chokyi Nangwa based on the instructional letter from the 13th Karmapa, Dudul Dorje that detailed where his next reincarnation would be born. He was enthroned and ordained as a monk by the 9th Tai Situpa at the age of nineteen.
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Tekchok Dorje
- Name
- 14th Karmapa, Theckchok Dorje
- Born
- 1798
- Birthplace
- Danang, Tibet
- Died
- 1868
- Occupation
- buddhist nun · writer · compiler · philosopher · karmapa
- Teachers
- Pema Nyinje Wangpo · Kunzik Chokyi Nangwa
- Languages
- Chinese
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The 14th Karmapa, Theckchok Dorje (1798–1868), also Thegchog Dorje, was the 14th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Theckchok Dorje was born in Danang, Kham, Tibet, and was recognized by Drukchen Kunzig Chokyi Nangwa based on the instructional letter from the 13th Karmapa, Dudul Dorje that detailed where his next reincarnation would be born. He was enthroned and ordained as a monk by the 9th Tai Situpa at the age of nineteen.
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Theckchok Dorje traveled extensively through Tibet, and was very active in the Rimé movement. He and other participants in the movement were especially interested in the exchange of knowledge between their own Kagyu school and the Nyingma school, and the Karmapa folded the Nyingma Terton Chogyur Lingpa's rituals into the Tsurphu ritual calendar. Chogyur Lingpa also has specific visions of the future Karmapas. Theckchok Dorje's interests were also in poetry, sculpture, and the dialectics. His spiritual successor was Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, and his detailed incarnation instruction letter for locating the 15th Karmapa had been prepared by the time of his death at the age of 71.
Training under Pema Nyinje Wangpo and Kunzik Chokyi Nangwa is recorded. Pema Künsang Chögyal, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye and Lu Bum Geshé are recorded as having studied under Tekchok Dorje. The recorded working language is Chinese. Positions recorded include Karmapa.
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• Name — 14th Karmapa, Theckchok Dorje • Born — 1798 • Birthplace — Danang, Tibet • Religion — Tibetan Buddhism • School — Kagyu • Predecessor — 13th Karmapa, Dudul Dorje • Successor — 15th Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje
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- 1.en Nik Douglas, Meryl White, Karmapa: The Black Hat Lama of Tibet, 1976, p. 99 : Citation étrangère langue=en Theg Chog Dorje was born on the tenth day of the twelfth month of the fire snake year (1798), in the Danang village of Zalmo Gang in the Do Khams region of Eastern Tibet.
- 2.Nik Douglas, Meryl White, , p. 100 :
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Lama Kunsang & Marie Aubèle, L'Odyssée des Karmapas, La grande histoire des lamas à la coiffe noire, Ed. Albin Michel (2011).
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