Person:Karmapa, 15th

Names

Tibetan: མཁའ་ཁྱབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Wylie:

• mkha' khyab rdo rje
  
• karma pa 15 mkha' khyab rdo rje
  
• don grub rdo rje
  
• dpal ldan kun bzang chos kyi nyi ma chen po 'phrin las mkha' khyab rdo rje phyogs las rnam par rgyal
  
• rang byung lhan skyes rdo rje
  

Other Transliterations in use:

• Khakhyap Dorje
  
• Khakyab Dorje
  
• The Fifteenth Karmapa
  
• The 15th Karmapa
  
• 15th Karmapa
  
• Fifteenth Karmapa
  

Dates

Born: 1870/1871 rgyal rtse khul
Died: 1921/1922

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P563

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.org]

Karma kaM tshang hierarch.
Major figure in the history of the ris med movement.
His collected works fill 10 volumes.
In 1875 he was enthroned at mtshur phu.

Main Students

• chos kyi rgya mtsho
• dpa' bo 10 gtsug lag snang ba dbang phyug
• Tai Situpa, 11th (pad+ma dbang mchog rgyal po)
• Goshir Gyaltsab, 11th (grags pa rgya mtsho)
• Jamgön Kongtrül, 2nd (mkhyen brtse'i 'od zer)
• 'jam dpal tshul khrims
• pad+ma dbang mchog rgyal po
• karma sgrub brgyud nges don snying po

Main Teachers

• 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
• Jamgön Kongtrül, 1st (blo gros mtha' yas)
• bkra shis 'od zer
• mi 'gyur dbang rgyal
• shes bya kun mkhyen
• gtsug lag nyin byed

Writings

• Works associated with Karmapa, 15th in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog