Person:Karmapa, 3rd

Names

Tibetan: རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Wylie:

• rang byung rdo rje
  
• karma pa 03 rang byung rdo rje
  
• karma pa rang byung rdo rje
• rje rang byung rdo rje

Other Transliterations in use:

• Rangjung Dorje
  
• Karmapa Rangjung Dorje
  
• The 3rd Karmapa
  
• 3rd Karmapa
  
• Third Karmapa
  

Dates

Born: 1284 at Gangs zhur mo
Died: 1339

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P66

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.org

Important master of the karma kaM tshang tradition; he is regarded as the first of the incarnation lamas in tibet, since he became widely recognized as the embodiment of karma pak+Si.
He was installed first at karma dgon and then established at kam po gnas nang.
He is famed for the building of the iron bridge over the sog chu.
In 1331 he was invited to court by the yuan emperor and received by prince rat+na shrI.
After the prince's demise, his elder brother brought him to sman rtse.
According to the bod kyi gal che'i lo rgyus he died at 56.

Main Students

• rdo rje dpal ba (rgyal ba g.yung ston pa)
• klong chen pa
• dar ma rgyal mtshan
• Shamarpa, 1st (grags pa seng+ge)
• rta sna go shrI kun dga' rgyal mtshan
• rma se ston pa rin chen bzang po
• bsod nams grags pa
• gzhon nu rgyal po
• phun tshogs dpal
• rgyal ba dpal
• g.yag sde paN chen
• kun dga' rdo rje
• rgyal sras legs pa

Main Teachers

• o rgyan pa rin chen dpal
• shes rab
• gzhon nu 'byung ba
• shes rab dpal
• kun dga' don grub
• ye shes
• gzhon nu rgyal po

Writings About Karmapa, 3rd

• rang byung rdo rje'i rnam thar tshigs bcad ma, Gangtok, gonpo tseten, 1978 [tbrc holdings 1]
  
• rang byung rdo rje'i rnam thar tshigs bcad ma

Writings

• Works associated with Karmapa, 3rd in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog

• chos rje rang byung rdo rjes mdzad pa'i rlung sems gnyis med (9, pp 167-173)
• dpal mkha' spyod dbang pos mdzad pa'i ro snyoms skor drug gi khrid yig (10, pp 107-113)
• gcod bka' tshoms chen mo'i sa bcad (14, pp 53-79)
• gcod kyi lus sbyin gyi ngag 'don mu tig phreng ba (14, pp 279-296)
• gcod kyi tshogs las yon tan kun 'byung gsungs rgyun 'khrul med ltar bkod pa bzhugs pa'i dbu phyogs (14, pp 297-334)
• phyag rgya chen po lhan cig skyes sbyor gyi khrid yig (9, pp 1-16)
• rdzogs pa'i sangs rgyas dpal karma pa'i zab chos sku gsum ngo sprod kyi gdams pa (9, pp 247-253)
• sku gsum ngo sprod (9, pp 231-245)
• zab lam nA ro chos drug gi gsal byed spyi chings khrid yig dang bcas pa (9, pp 17-37)
• zab mo bdud kyi gcod yul gyi khrid yig (14, pp 173-184)