Teacher: Karmapa Choying Dorje Religious Context

Choying Dorje Page

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description
- Outline Page
- Karmapa Main Page
- Karmapa Outline Page
- Karma Kagyu Page
- Black Hats & Blue Hats
- Karma Kagyu Hats
- Bibliography (below)
- Confusions:
- Others

Videos:
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- Choying Dorje Study Topics

Jeff Watt [updated 1-2020, 5-2025]

Bibliography:

The Life and Art of the Tenth Karma-pa Chos-dbyings-rdo-rje (1604-1674). A Biography of a Great Tibetan Lama and Artist of the Turbulent Seventeenth Century. PhD Dissertation. Irmgard Mengele. Hamburg, 2004.

A Golden Swan in Turbulent Waters: The life and Times of the Tenth Karmapa Choying Dorje. Shamar Rinpoche. Rabsel Publications, 2012.

Riding a Huge Wave of Karma: The Turbulent Life of the Tenth Karma-pa. Irmgard Mengele. Vajra Publications, 2012.

The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa. Debreczeny, Karl, Ian A. Alsop, David P. Jackson, and Irmgard Mengele. New York: Rubin Museum of Art; Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2012.

The Sculpture of Chöying Dorjé, Tenth Karmapa. Ian Alsop. Asianart.com, 2013.

The Tenth Karmapa & Tibet's Turbulent Seventeenth Century. Karl Debreczeny and Gray Tuttle. Serindia Publications, 2016.

The Tenth Karmapa Tibet's Greatest Artist. Ulrich Von Schroeder. Visual Dharma, 2025.
(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).

(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).