Person:Karmapa, 14th
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Names
Tibetan: ཐེག་མཆོག་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Wylie:
- theg mchog rdo rje
- karma pa 14 theg mchog rdo rje
- blo bzang grub mchog
- rgyal dbang bcu bzhi pa
- Dpal ldan theg pa mchog gi rdo rje
Other Transliterations in use:
- Thekchok Dorje
- Tekchok Dorje
- Thegchog Dorje
- Losang Drubchok
- Losang Drubchog
- 14th Karmapa
- Fourteenth Karmapa
Dates
Born: 1798/1799
Died: 1868/1869
Affiliation
Other Biographical Information
Biography from kagyuoffice.org
Important hierarch of the karma kaM tshang tradition.
Recognized as the embodiment of the 13th Karmapa by the 8th 'brug chen kun gzigs chos kyi snang ba and given the name theg mchog rdo rje.
Introduced the 'cham of the gsang 'dus and phur pa sgrub chen during the month of sa ga zla ba at mtshur phu.
His recognition was authenticated through the use of the golden urn.
Main Students
- Jamgön Kongtrül, 1st (blo gros mtha' yas)
- mchog gyur gling pa
- bkra shis 'od zer
- mi 'gyur dbang rgyal
- gtsug lag nyin byed
- Tai Situpa, 10th (pad+ma kun bzang chos rgyal)
- nges don bstan pa rab rgyas
- gsang sngags bstan 'dzin
- klu 'bum dge bshes
Main Teachers
- Tai Situpa, 9th (pad+ma nyin byed dbang po)
- kun gzigs chos kyi snang ba
Quotes
Writings About Karmapa, 14th
Writings
- 'jam mgon bla ma gu Na'i mtshan gyi skyes rabs gsol 'debs lha yi rnga bo che'i sgra dbyangs (11, pp 67-68)
- gcod kyi tshogs las yon tan kun 'byung gsungs rgyun 'khrul med ltar bkod pa bzhugs pa'i dbu phyogs (14, pp 297-334)
- rdzogs pa'i sangs rgyas dpal karma pa'i zab chos sku gsum ngo sprod kyi gdams pa (9, pp 247-253)