Chöying Dorje
the 10th Karmapa, Chöying Dorje (1604 - 1674)
Chöying Dorje was born in Khaytri Tang in the province from Golok in the extreme North-East from the Tibet in the Amdo. It is known as that it made 7 pas towards each cardinal direction to its birth. At the 6 years age, it could paint better than any of its Masters, and he was a gifted sculptor.
Chöying Dorje could provide that political wars and conflicts would occur, in relation to a pact between the Gelugpa and the Mongolian sovereign Güshi Khan, with respect to King de Tsang, whose family controlled most of Tibet, and who was close to the school Kagyu. The 10th Karmapa distributed its goods to the poor and the needy one, and it made to Gyaltsab Rinpoché its regent, knowing that it would be absent for one long period. There was much versed blood when the Mongolian armies of Güshi Khan attacked Shigatse, then the area of Karmapa, spreading death and the destruction there. The 10th Karmapa have difficulties, and the school Kagyu became very weak because of the political climate. Because of these persecutions, the 10th Karmapa due to leave Tibet. The origin of this conflict is political, and comes from the bonds of the lines Kagyu and Jonang with King de Tsang. Thus, the 10th Karmapa due to exile itself and the Jonang S were presécutés and their additional monasteries by the Gelugpa, although they will subsiteront in certain areas of Tibet until our days and will be recognized by the 14th Dalaï Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. He travelled through the Nepal, the Burma, until North of the Yunnan to China. The 10th Karmapa built several monasteries in the areas which it crossed. Thus, for example, Ogmin Namling Lashiba was the first Buddhist monastery built in an area of populated Yunnan of Naxi. This monastery was founded by the 10th Karmapa, Chöying Dorje. The religious stones of Mani can be also found in certain hearths Naxi, especially among the sub-group Mosuo.
As always, where that it goes, it taught the dharma and recognized incarnations of tulkous of the Kagyu line. It was possible for him to return in Tibet after 20 years of exile. The 5th Dalaï Lama, Lobsang Gyatso, received 10th Karmapa transmission of Mahamudra.
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