The source of the controversy surrounding the "twin Karmapas" involves the belief that when a leader of a sect dies, he is reincarnated soon after in the body of a baby boy.
這次來台引起紛爭的，就是噶居白派的大寶法王。而紛爭的緣起，就是藏傳密宗領導人傳承時，所使用的最眾所周知的「轉世」傳統。