Karma Kagyu information

Karma Kagyu (Tibetan: ཀརྨ་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད, Wylie: karma bka'-brgyud), or Kamtsang Kagyu (Tibetan: ཀརྨ་ཀཾ་ཚང་, Wylie: kar+ma kaM tshang), is a widely practiced and probably the second-largest lineage within the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.^[1] The lineage has long-standing monasteries in Tibet, China, Russia, Mongolia, India, Nepal and Bhutan, with current centres in over 60 countries. The spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu is the Gyalwa Karmapa; the 2nd among the 10 Karmapas had been the principal spiritual advisors to successive emperors of China.^[2] The Karma Kagyu are sometimes called the "Black Hat" lamas, in reference to the Black Crown worn by the Karmapa.

The Kagyu lineage claims a continuity of oral instructions transmitted from master to disciple.^[3] This emphasis is reflected in the literal meaning of Kagyu. The first syllable, ka, is said to refer to the texts of Buddha's teachings and to the master's verbal instructions. Ka has the double meaning of the enlightened meaning imparted by a teacher's words, as well as the strength that such words of insight may bear. The second syllable, gyu, means lineage or tradition. The combination of these syllables thus means "the line of orally transmitted instructions." The elders in the Kagyu lineage, representing the theoretically uninterrupted line of masters and disciples reaching back to Buddha (Vajradhara), are jointly known as the "Golden Rosary.".^[4]

^ "Brief History of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism". Wisdom Books. Archived from the original on 2011-05-16.: "The Kagyu School is one of the four mains schools of Tibetan Buddhism: the others being the Nyingma, Gelugpa and Sakya... In the present day there are four main lineages that can be classified as part of the Kagyu school. They are the Karma Kagyu, Drukpa Kagyu, Drikung Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu."
^ Karma Thinley Rinpoche, The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet, Shambhala, ISBN 978-1570626449. Accessed August 21, 2019.
^ La Lignée du Rosaire d’Or ("The golden rosary lineage").
^ Lama Kunsang and Marie Aubèle, L’Odyssée des Karmapas. La grande histoire des lamas à la coiffe noire ("The odyssey of the Karmapas: the great history of the Black Hat lamas"), Ed. Albin Michel, 2011 ISBN 978-2-226-22150-6

[1] "Brief History of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism". Wisdom Books. Archived from the original on 2011-05-16.: "The Kagyu School is one of the four mains schools of Tibetan Buddhism: the others being the Nyingma, Gelugpa and Sakya... In the present day there are four main lineages that can be classified as part of the Kagyu school. They are the Karma Kagyu, Drukpa Kagyu, Drikung Kagyu and Shangpa Kagyu."

[2] Karma Thinley Rinpoche, The History of the Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet, Shambhala, ISBN 978-1570626449. Accessed August 21, 2019.

[lineage-3] La Lignée du Rosaire d’Or ("The golden rosary lineage").

[odyssey-4] Lama Kunsang and Marie Aubèle, L’Odyssée des Karmapas. La grande histoire des lamas à la coiffe noire ("The odyssey of the Karmapas: the great history of the Black Hat lamas"), Ed. Albin Michel, 2011 ISBN 978-2-226-22150-6

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