Yeshe Dorje (1676–1702) was the eleventh

Gyalwa Karmapa The Karmapa (honorific title '' His Holiness the Gyalwa'' ��ྒྱལ་བ་, Victorious One''Karmapa'', more formally as ''Gyalwang'' ��ྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་, King of Victorious Ones''Karmapa'', and informally as the ' ...

, head of the Kagyu School of

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. Yeshe Dorje was born in Mayshö, Kham. He was discovered by Minjur Dorje and recognized by Shamar Yeshe Nyinpo, the seventh

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. Yeshe Dorje was transferred to

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for his education and was ordained in the

Tsurphu Monastery Tsurphu Monastery ( or Tölung Tsurphu (, "Tsurphu of Tölong") is a gompa which serves as the traditional seat of the Karmapa, the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in Gurum in Doilungdêqên District, Tibet Aut ...

. He received an education both in the Kagyu school as well as the

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school. Yeshe Dorje integrated the teaching of Tercho by

Padmasambhava Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from India who may have taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According ...

in the Kagyu school. He was the shortest-lived of all the Karmapas. Like the 10th Karmapa before him, he left a detailed letter referring to his next incarnation.The Eleventh Karmapa Yeshe Dorje
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dorje, Yeshe 1676 births 1702 deaths 11 17th-century Tibetan people 18th-century Tibetan people

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