Lama Ole Nydahl: His Teachers: Shamar Rinpoche




	- The 16th Karmapa - The 17th Karmapa - Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche - Shamar Rinpoche

Shamar Rinpoche
Kunzig Sharmar Rinpoche is the second highest teacher of the Karma Kagyu lineage. The line of his incarnations has always been very close to the incarnations of the Karmapas. This gave him the name "red- hat Karmapa". In 1959 Shamar Rinpoche together with the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa had to leave his home in Tibet due to the Chinese invasion. Until 1979 he received all the transmissions and teachings of the Karma Kagyu lineage from the 16th Karmapa. Since than he has traveled all around the world teaching Diamond Way Buddhism.

Thanks mainly to his efforts, the 17th incarnation of the Karmapa was found in 1992 and was brought to freedom in India where Shamar Rinpoche is mainly responsible for his education.

» More about Shamar Rinpoche
» Shamar Rinpoche on the recognition of the 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje

Shamar Rinpoche, Lama Ole Nydahl and Caty Hartung

[ Diamond Way Buddhism ] [ In Person] [ His Work ] [ His Teachers ] [ Text, Image+Sound ]