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Karma Thinley Rinpoche ཀརྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ (born 1931), is an important master of the Kagyu Mahamudra, Sakya Lamdré and Chod traditions of Tibetan Buddhism active in the west and Nepal.
Learn about the life and achievements of Karma Thinley Rinpoche, a Buddhist master of the Sakya and Kagyu traditions, who was born in Tibet in 1931 and founded centres in Canada, the U.S.A., New Zealand and the U.K. Read about his recognition, ordination, education, emigration, activities and publications.
From that time onwards, Rinpoche was known as Karma Thinley Rinpoche. While at Tsurphu, Rinpoche received many teachings from His Holiness and Drupon Rinpoche, who bestowed upon him the Six Doctrines of Naropa, one of the most profound and revered Kagyu teachings.
Karma Trinlay Rinpoche is a Buddhist master and scholar. He is one of the first Westerners to be recognized as a Tulku.
Karma Thinley Rinpoche, master of the Kagyu and Sakya traditions, was born into the noble family of Bongsar in 1931 in the Nangchen area of Kham, Eastern Tibet.
Lama Karma Thinley Rinpoche was born in 1931 in Nangchen, Kham, in Qinghai. When he was about one month old he received the refuge blessing from the Sixteenth Gyalwang Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje and the Eleventh Situ, Padma Wangchok Gyalpo.
Karma Thinley Rinpoche. Master of the Kagyu and Sakya traditions of Buddhism, Rinpoche was born and trained in Tibet but left his homeland in 1959. Fourteen years later, in 1973, Lama Jampa Thaye met Rinpoche in the UK and became his student. Karma Thinley Rinpoche is one of Lama Jampa’s main Buddhist teachers.
