The Venerable Khenpo Karma Tharchin Rinpoche, published as Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, was a senior lama and ordained monk of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. As a Khenpo—which is loosely equivalent to a Western D.Div. degree—he served as abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where he hosted Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje on several occasions. He spent the last several years of his life teaching extensively on the works of Karma Chagmé.