Dorje Denma Ling retreat centre in The Falls near Tatamagouche.

These disciples were: King Trisong Detsen, Namkhai Nyingpo, Nub Chen Sangye Yeshe, Gyalwa Choyang, the princess of Karchen Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal, Palgyi Yeshe, Palgyi Senge, the great translator Vairotsana, Nyak Jnanakumara, Gyalmo Yudra Nyingpo, Nanam Dorje Dudjom, Yeshe Yang, Sokpo Lhapal, Nanam Zhang Yeshe De, Palgyi Wangchuk, Denma Tsémang, Kawa Paltsek, Shupu Palgyi Senge, Dré Gyalwe Lodro, Drokben Khyenchung Lotsawa, Otren Palgyi Wangchuk, Ma Rinchen Chok, Lhalung Palgyi Dorje, Langdro Konchog Jungné and Lasum Gyalwa Changchup.

The Drukpa Lineage was founded in western Tibet by Drogon Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje ( 1161 – 1211 ), a student of Ling Repa who mastered the Tantric Buddhism practices of the mahamudra and six yogas of Naropa at an early age.

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.

Those who have followed the practice of Dorje Shugden most recently in the 20th and 21st centuries include the majority of the most famous Gelug teachers, including Pabongka Rinpoche, Ling Rinpoche ( senior tutor of the current, 14th Dalai Lama ), Trijang Rinpoche ( junior tutor of the Dalai Lama ), Zong Rinpoche, Gangchen Rinpoche, Gonsar Rinpoche, Dagom Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Lama Zopa, Kundeling Rinpoche, Domo Geshe Rinpoche, and Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche.

As further evidence of their view they state the example of Phelgye Ling monastery that was transformed to a Gelug monastery by the 5th Dalai Lama, who gave the monastery a statue ( about 20 cm high ) of Dorje Shugden riding on a black horse, which still exists in the monastery in Kathmandu.

The name Darjeeling comes from the Tibetan words, Dorje ( thunderbolt ) and Ling ( place or land ), meaning the land of the thunderbolt.

A short distance from the institute lies the Dolma Ling Buddhist nunnery, and the Gyato Monastery, temporary residence of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.

Establishes Dorje Khyung Dzong, a retreat facility in southern Colorado.

In 1951, he also received Chöd teachings from Ayu Khandro Dorje Paldrön ( 1838 – 1953 ), a woman who spent over fifty years in dark retreat and was a disciple of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.

In an 18-month retreat he accomplished the form of Manjushri known as ' Lion of Philosophers ' ( Tibetan: smra ba ' i seng ge ), using a liturgy composed by the fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyab Dorje.

Since 1991 the foundation provides community development and health services to the region, including support of monks, nuns, and visitors to the facilities at the retreat center of Dorje Khyung Dzong.

However, the 11th century Tibetan master Yumo Mikyo Dorje, a student of the Kashmiri scholar Somanatha, was possibly the first Tibetan master to articulate a Shentong view, after his experiences during a Kalachakra retreat.

* Chögyam Trungpa / Dorje Dradül of Mukpo: Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala ( 1999 ), 2nd edition 2001,, Shambhala Root Text.

Other high Kagyu lamas who support Ogyen Trinley Dorje include the Ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche ; the Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche ; the Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and his Nalandabodhi organization ; the Twelfth Surmang Trungpa Rinpoche ; the Seventh Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche ; the Third Tenga Rinpoche ; the Third Bardor Tulku Rinpoche ; the Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche ; the Venerable Bokar Rinpoche ; the Venerable Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche ( abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra ); Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and his organization, Shambhala International ; the Venerable Drupon Rinpoche, and Lama Norlha Rinpoche, among others.

The Shambhala Buddhist sangha expresses this vision largely within Tibetan Buddhist concepts, terms, and practices, continuing its ties to contemporary Kagyu and Nyingma lineage holders, among them His Holiness the Karmapa ( Ogyen Trinley Dorje ), H. H.

The Dorje Kasung is a group that was formed by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to support the transmission of the Shambhala teachings by helping to create an appropriate environment for them to be taught in.

His birth name ( according to the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, his personal name ) was Pema Dorje (, Vajra Lotus / Lotus Vajra ).

According to one Nyingma tradition, the first master of the Buddhist Dzogchen lineage in our world was Garab Dorje ( Wylie: dga ' rab rdo rje, Sanskrit * prahevajra ) from Uddiyana ( Wylie:.

The last official and current unofficial king ( raja or gyelpo ) is Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista ( born c. 1933 ), who traces his lineage directly back to Ame Pal, the warrior who founded this Buddhist kingdom in 1380.

Selections from the Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Polymath: Chankya Rolpai Dorje ( Lcang skya rol pa ’ i rdo rje ), 1717 – 1786.

However, in Padmasambhava, Karma Lingpa, Gyurme Dorje, Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa ( 2005: p. 480 ), we find the following clarification of the difference between the sense of the Tibetan rangrig and the Sanskrit ' svasaṃvitti ' or ' svasaṃvedana ' in Indian Buddhist epistemology and in particular in the writings of the lauded logicians Dignāga and Dharmakīrti, and their meaning in the Dzogchen teachings — in which the translators render the term by the English expression ' intrinsic awareness ':

Burkhard Scherer, a pupil of both Nydahl and Thaye Dorje, takes a historical-critical approach of Tibetan Buddhist Studies.

They also had a son, Ossian Kennard MacLise, who was recognized by Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa, as a reincarnation of a Tibetan saint, or tulku, and at age four became a Buddhist monk.

According to the message of International Karma Kagyu Buddhist Organization published on www. karmapa-issue. org: " To underscore his willingness to be supportive, Shamar Rinpoche even provided the necessary help for Ugyen Trinlay Dorje to obtain Indian government's approval for his recent visit to the U. S., though at the same time maintaining the stance that Thrinlay Thaye Dorje is the traditional Karmapa.

* Dorje, Gyurme ; Tsering, Tashi ; Stoddard, Heather and Alexander, André ( 2010 ) Jokhang: Tibet's most sacred Buddhist Temple.

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.

As a result of this, Thaye Dorje was enthroned as Vidhyadhara ( Knowledge Holder ) by the 14th Shamarpa in December 2003 at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute.

Alongside this traditional Buddhist training, Thaye Dorje has received a modern Western education from English and Australian tutors and an intensive introduction to Western philosophy from Professor Harrison Pemberton of Washington and Lee University in the USA.

The prosecuting lawyer, Shree Sanjay Jain, argues that when the Dalai Lama excommunicates Dorje Shugden worshippers from Buddhist society, " then it is discrimination of the worst kind.

The entry for Dorje Shugden in Frederick Bunce's encyclopedia of Buddhist entities describes Dorje Shugden's appearance as follows:

Dorje Shugden is said to have appeared in his current form as the reincarnation of a Buddhist Teacher in the Gelugpa Tradition named Ngatrul ( Tulku ) Dragpa Gyaltsen, the reincarnation of Panchen Sonam Dragpa.

Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan, led by Lama Norbu ( Ruocheng Ying ), are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje ( Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen ).

Nam Cho, is the " sky / space treasure " terma of the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma Palyul Lineage as revealed by Terton Migyur Dorje.

In all, he had more than one hundred and fifty teachers, who were masters from all four major Tibetan Buddhist schools — Sakya, Gelug, Kagyü and Nyingma — from the regions of Ü and Tsang, as well as Eastern Tibet, including Minling Trichen Gyurme Sangye Kunga, Shechen Gyurme Thutob Namgyal, Sakyapa Dorje Rinchen and the khenpo brothers of Thartse, Ngorpa Thartsé Khenpo Jampa Kunga Tendzin ( 1776 – 1862 ) and Thartsé Pönlop Naljor Jampal Zangpo ( b. 1789 ).

This tradition dates to 1189 when Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje, founder of the Drukpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, was in Phoankar ( Tibet ) where he reportedly witnessed the Namgyiphu valley glowing with rainbow and light.

" In explaining this, Geshe Kelsang said that if the Dalai Lama succeeds in destroying the practice of Dorje Shugden, the entire Gelug tradition itself will be destroyed:

The Dorje Zahorma hat, that is a special form of the Dorje Zahorma hat which is particular to Chatral Rinpoches tradition, is emblazoned with an image of Samantabhadra.

The 14th Shamarpa, who is the second longest recognized tulku ( reincarnate Lama ) incarnation lineage in the Karma Kagyu tradition and who, in previous incarnations, has held and transmitted the Kagyu lineage between Karmapas, does not recognize Ogyen Trinley Dorje and instead has proclaimed Thaye Dorje (), whom he purportedly identified a few years earlier ( than the recognition of Orgyen Thrinley Dorje ) in a dream, as the true Karmapa.

Dorje Shugden has traditionally been regarded as a protector especially of the Gelugpa tradition.

The most famous proponent and supporter of the practice of Dorje Shugden in the West, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, explained how Dorje Shugden protects the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa in particular:

Among those held by tradition to be Jigme Lingpa's reincarnations are Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje ( mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje ) ( his mind-emanation ), Patrul Rinpoche ( speech-emanation ) and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo ( body-emanation ).

The Nam Cho is the " sky / space treasure " terma as revealed by Terton Migyur Dorje in the Palyul tradition.

The mahāmudrā tradition also includes a " fourfold pointing-out instructions " ( pointing out the nature of mind on the basis of appearances ) presented by Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje in his three texts on mahāmudrā.