Mikyö Dorje

The 8th Karmapa, Mikyö Dorje (1507 - 1554)

One intended it to say " Karmapa " with the birth. This was brought back to Taï Sitou Rinpoché which confirmed that the child was well new the Karmapa, but he asked the parents to maintain the secrecy for 3 months, to protect the young incarnation. He invented a test, that the baby succeeds, but during whom one intended it to say: " E my Ho! Do not have doubts, I am Karmapa. " It spent the 6 following years to Karma Gön. When it was 5 years old, another candidate under Karmapa was proposed in the Amdo. The regent of the Karmapa, Gyaltsab Rinpoché, left Tsourphou to examine the 2 children. When a similar situation occurs, it is traditional to see whether the candidates can select the possessions of the predecessor among various objects. Mikyö Dorje was able to distinguish the possessions from its predecessor, while the other child failed. The young person Karmapa declared that the other candidate was the reincarnation of Surmang Chungtsang of the monastery of Surmang in the East of the Tibet.

The 8th Karmapa had many visions during its life, revealing the inseparability of its own emanations and those of Padmasambhava, both being emanations of the Buddha intended to achieve the enlightened activity and whose lesson remains. He also saw that he had been the Padmasambhava preceding Buddha Dipankara.

Mikyö Dorje was one of the most famous Karmapa S, it was a powerful Master of meditation, a scholar and prolific author of more than 30 important works, in particular including very significant texts on the deepest known philosophy of Buddhism: sight of the free lack of form of the others. This represents the top of the school of the Way of the Medium (Madhyamika) of Buddhism Mahayana and is regarded as an antidote with the bad comprehension of vacuity (Shunyata).

It exposed its sights in detail discussed it with scholars of other Buddhist schools. Mikyö Dorje was also an artist visionary with whom we owe the style of painting of thangkas Karma Gadri: a very roomy, transparent and méditatif style. It also composed one of the principal dévotionelles practices of the school Kagyupa known like the Guru-yoga of the four sessions.

The king of Li Jiang (currently called Lijiang and previously integrated into the kingdom of Nanzhao) and in the Yunnan having heard of the lesson about 8th Karmapa, Mikyö Dorje, invited the Karmapa young person to visit his country. The third day of the fourth month of the year of rat of fire 1516 Karmapa met King of Jiang which came to its meeting at the border from the Tibet.

It was invited in China when it was very young, but it declined the invitation, knowing that the Emperor would have died at the time of his arrival. Its refusal offended the messengers carrying the invitation, who turned over in China to note that the Emperor was deceased. Carrying out the imminence of its own passage, he entrusted a letter of prediction to Sharmapa and trespassed at the 47 years age.

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