Thaye Dorje
| Trinley Thaye Dorje | |
|---|---|
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| Religion | Vajrayana |
| School | Karma Kagyu |
| Personal | |
| Born |
May 6, 1983 Lhasa, Tibet, China |
| Spouse | Rinchen Yangzom (m. 2017) |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | His Holiness 17th KarmapaCo-claimant along with Ogyen Trinley Dorje |
| Predecessor | Rangjung Rigpe Dorje |
| Religious career | |
| Reincarnation | KarmapaCo-claimant along with Ogyen Trinley Dorje |
Trinley Thaye Dorje (Tibetan: ཕྲིན་ལས་མཐའ་ཡས་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie: Phrin-las Mtha'-yas Rdo-rje) (born 6 May 1983 in Lhasa) is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa.
The Karmapa is head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Ogyen Trinley Dorje and Thaye Dorje are the persisting claimants to that office and title.
Trinley Thaye Dorje is the son of the 3rd Mipham Rinpoche (Tshe-dbang Bdud-'dul lineage) of Junyung Monastery, one of several persons believed to be a reincarnation of Ju Mipham, an important lama of the Nyingmapa school, and Dechen Wangmo, the daughter of a noble family descended from King Gesar of Ling. At the age of six months the boy is reported to have started telling people that he was the Karmapa. (The identification of the 17th Karmapa is disputed. See Karmapa controversy)
In 1988 Shamar Rinpoche went on a secret visit to Lhasa to investigate whether Thaye Dorje was the reincarnation of the Karmapa, because, he said, the boy appeared to him in a dream. In March 1994, Thaye Dorje and his family escaped from Tibet to Nepal and then to India, where Shamar Rinpoche formally recognized him as the 17th Karmapa. In 1994 Thaye Dorje was enthroned by the 14th Kunzig Shamarpa as the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute in New Delhi, India. On March 25, 2017, Thaye Dorje married Rinchen Yangzom.
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