Person:Karmapa, 1st

Names

Tibetan: དུས་གསུམ་མཁྱེན་པ་

Wylie:

• dus gsum mkhyen pa
  
• karma pa 01 dus gsum mkhyen pa
• dge 'phel - Personal Name
• dpal chos kyi grags pa - Personal Name

Other Transliterations in use:

• Düsum Khyenpa
• Dusum Khyenpa
• Karmapa 01
• 1st Karmapa
• First Karmapa

Dates

Born: 1110 at tre shod

Died: 1193

Key Dates:

1164 - Founds monastery-kam po gnas nang dgon (chab mdo)

1184 - Founds monastery - karma dgon

1185 - Founds monastery - karma lha steng dgon pa

1189 - Founds monastery - mtshur phu dgon (stod lung bde chen rdzong)

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P1400

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.org

Founder of the the black hat karmapa lineage of the karma kaM tshang branch of the bka' brgyud tradition.

Personal Relations

• Father - rdo rje mgon po

• Mother - sgang lcam ming 'dren

Main Students

• 'gro mgon ras chen (sangs rgyas ras chen dpal grags)
• nam mkha' 'od

Main Teachers

• sgam po pa
• seng+ge grags
• chos kyi seng+ge
• yon tan grags
• shes rab rdo rje
• mal 'dul 'dzin
• a seng
• byang chub grags

Writings

• Works associated with Karmapa, 1st in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog

• chos rje rang byung rdo rjes mdzad pa'i rlung sems gnyis med (9, pp 167-173)