Karmapa
Young Spiritual Leader Arrives in New York, Ready to Teach and Be Taught
Posted by Jeff from New York Times
His followers regard him not only as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, who died in 1981, but also as the 17th incarnation of the first Karmapa in the 12th century, in an unbroken lineage going back 900 years. They revere him as leader of the Kagyu sect - called the black hat or black crown sect - one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
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