His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa
His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa also known as Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, founded Rumtek Dharma Chakra Centre in Sikkim as his main seat-in-exile outside Tibet. As the supreme head of the Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism, the Karmapa embodies, represents, and guides its accumulated spiritual energy. Karma means 'activity', and the Gyalwa Karmapa embodies the activity of all the buddhas of the ten directions.
Born in eastern Tibet in 1924 to a noble family, he was recognised as the Karmapa incarnation in accord with a prediction letter written by the previous Karmapa and enthroned when he was eight years old. The recognition of the Sixteenth Karmapa was officially confirmed by His Holiness the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. He passed into parinirvana in 1981, leaving a prediction letter found by one of his regents, His Eminence the Twelfth Situ Rinpoche.
Adrianna Tjung gave offfered this hair relic during a relic event in the Netherlands in 2004. Adriana had received the relic during 1977 when his Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa visited Amsterdam.
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