Person:Karmapa, 14th

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
• Thegchog Dorje
• Losang Drubchok
• Losang Drubchog
• 14th Karmapa
• Fourteenth Karmapa

Dates

Born: 1798/1799
Died: 1868/1869

Affiliation

• Karma Kagyu
• Karmapa

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P562

Biography from kagyuoffice.org

Biography from kagyu.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

Writings

• Works associated with Karmapa, 14th in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog

• '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)