Karma Kagyu
A living tradition within Kagyu. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Karma Kagyu is a living tradition within Kagyu. Also written Karma Kamtsang.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. The Encyclopedia.com Tibetan Buddhism entry records that the Karma Kagyu has been led by successive Gyalwa Karmapas since the 12th century. No founder or founding year is given there.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Karma Kagyu.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-karma-kagyu.
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title = {Karma Kagyu},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.