Already a tulku, or reincarnation, he cannot be chosen as the reborn Dalai Lama.The Karmapa is also from a rival school of Buddhism, the Kagyu, a small order known colloquially as the Black Hats.

• 噶玛巴已经是土库，或者是（前世噶玛巴喇嘛）的转世者，他不可能被选为达赖喇嘛的转世，同时噶玛巴来自佛教的竞争教派，一个通称为红帽派的佛教支派的噶举派。