Person:Karmapa, 1st

Names

Tibetan: Person:Karmapa, 1st

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:

• Person:Karmapa, 1st
• Person:Karmapa, 1st
• Person:Karmapa, 1st
• Person:Karmapa, 1st
• The 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 - ka.rma dgon

1185 - Founds monastery - ka.rma lha steng dgon pa

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

Affiliation

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

Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P1400

Personal Relations

• Father - rdo rje mgon po

• Mother - sgang lcam ming 'dren

Main Students

• sangs rgyas ras chen dpal grags
• nam mkha' 'od

Main Teachers

• seng+ge grags
• chos kyi seng+ge
• yon tan grags
• shes rab rdo rje
• mal 'Dul 'dzin
• a seng
• bsod nams rin chen
• 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)