Person:Shamarpa, 4th

Names

Tibetan: ཆོས་གྲགས་ཡེ་ཤེས་
Wylie:

• chos grags ye shes
  
• zhwa dmar pa 04 chos grags ye shes
  
• spyan snga ba chos kyi grags pa ye shes dpal bzang
  
• zhwa dmar spyan snga chos kyi grags pa
  
• chos kyi grags pa ye shes dpal bzang po
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Chödrak Yeshe
  
• Chodrak Yeshe
  
• Chödrag Yeshe
  
• Chodrag Yeshe
  
• Chokyi Drakpa Yeshe Pal Zangpo
  
• Chökyi Drakpa Yeshe Pal Zangpo
  
• Chokyi Dragpa Yeshe Pal Zangpo
  
• Chökyi Dragpa Yeshe Pal Zangpo
  
• 4th Shamarpa
  
• Fourth Shamarpa
  

Dates

Born: 1453
Died: 1524

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Shamarpa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: http://tbrc.org/link?RID=P317

Biography from shamarpa.org

One of the greatest masters of the karma kaM tshang tradition.
Founds the monastery of yangs pa can in either 1503 (according to the tshig mdzod chen mo) or in 1505 (according to zhwa sgab pa).
He was responsible for conferring bka' brgyud teachings on gong dkar rdo rje gdan pa kun dga' rnam rgyal.
1512 - ordained dpa' bo 02 gtsug lag 'phreng ba.
Took ordination under the 7th Karmapa, chos grags rgya mtsho.
Maintained the gzhan stong tradition of dol po pa.

Main Students

• gtsug lag 'phreng ba (dpa' bo, 2nd)
• blo gros rgyal po
• rdo rje seng+ge
• kun dga' rin chen
• ngag dbang grags pa
• kun dga' rnam rgyal
• shes rab dpal
• chos kyi blo gros
• rin chen phun tshogs chos kyi rgyal po

Main Teachers

• bsod nams rgya mtsho
• gzhon nu dpal
• Karmapa, 7th (chos grags rgya mtsho)
• rgyal mtshan
• Goshir Gyaltsab, 1st (dpal 'byor don grub)
• rab 'byor seng ge

Writings

• Works associated with Shamarpa, 4th in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog

• phag mo rlung sems gnyis med kyi lha khrid zin bris su bkod pa (9, pp 175-184)
• rdzogs pa chen po klong sde'i snyan brgyud rin po che rdo rje zam pa'i sgom khrid kyi lag len (1, pp 417-438)