Karma Kagyu

The largest of the Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Karma Kagyu is the largest sub-school of the Kagyu lineage; contained-in replaces the level-skipping edge to Tibetan Buddhism.

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Recited in the Karma Kagyu the more insistently because the head of the lineage is understood to be the bodhisattva the mantra addresses.

The Karmapa line is the oldest of the recognised tulku lineages, older than the office of Dalai Lama, and the model on which the institution was built.

The school has its own unresolved dispute over the recognition of its head, and the state's claim to approve such recognitions is refused on the same ground as elsewhere in the tradition.

Buddhahood attainable within a single lifetime through tantric method is affirmed in this branch.

Buddha-nature is read as a positive presence rather than as a bare absence, which is what aligns the branch with the other-emptiness reading.

Mahamudra, inherited from the wider Kagyu school, is this branch's signature teaching, transmitted through its lineage of reincarnate teachers.

Inaugurated in 1966 as the sixteenth Karmapa's seat in exile and the center of the modern succession dispute over the seventeenth Karmapa.

Founded by Dusum Khyenpa, the first Karmapa, as the seat of the lineage he began.

Tantric transmission is central and passes only under initiation from a teacher. The practices themselves are not published and are not described here.

The Karma Kagyu is the Kagyu branch most consistently associated with shentong, following the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje's reading of buddha-nature.

The perfections are held in the Karma Kagyu school as the common path.

The three poisons are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

Not-self is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

Impermanence is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The intermediate state is held in the Karma Kagyu school, and the recognition of a Karmapa's rebirth presupposes it.

The bodhisattva motivation is held in the Karma Kagyu school, and the school administers the bodhisattva vow as a formal rite.

Giving is held in the Karma Kagyu school as the first of the perfections.

Dependent origination is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

Dharma is held in the Karma Kagyu school in the Mahayana sense.

Suffering is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

Karma is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

Nirvana is held in the Karma Kagyu school, with full buddhahood as the goal of the path.

Collected absorption is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

Samsara is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The Karma Kagyu presentation of mahamudra allows a direct introduction to the nature of mind that does not wait on the completion of the graded stages, while keeping the graded preliminaries as its condition.

Emptiness is held in the Karma Kagyu school, and several of its most influential scholars have argued the shentong reading of it.

The five aggregates are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The four immeasurables are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The four truths are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The eightfold path is held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The six realms are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The three jewels and going for refuge are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The three marks are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

The two truths are held in the Karma Kagyu school.

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