]> 2026-10-14T15:52:11-04:00 Karma chags med 0 en Raga Asya; Rāga Asya རཱ་ག་ཨ་སྱ་; ཨ་རཱ་ག་ rA ga a s+ya; a rA ga 649 Nedo Karma Chakme, also known as Raga Asé (Rāgāsya), was an influential Karma Kamtsang scholar-yogin of Tibet, recognized by many as the incarnation of the ninth Karmapa (but not selected). His teachers included the most famous masters of his time, both Nyingma and Kagyu. He was both the teacher and student of Tertön Mingyur Dorje. Karma Chakme was born in 1609 in the Nyomtod region of Kham. He trained first in his father's Nyingma lineage before entering the Karma Kagyu world. He took novice and full ordination at Tsurpu Monastery in 1627, where he received the name by which he is known, and studied closely with the Tenth Karmapa Choying Dorje, the Sixth Zhamar Chokyi Wangchuk, and the Zurmang Trungpa. His life spanned the turbulent decades of the Mongol invasion and the fall of his Rinpung and Karma Kagyu patrons, and he spent his later years—including a thirteen-year retreat begun in 1645—in intensive practice and writing before his death in 1678. His ''Aspirational Prayer for Sukhāvatī'' (the "Chakme Sukhāvatī Prayer") remains one of the most widely recited prayers among both lay and monastic Tibetans. His retreat manual ''Mountain Dharma: Advice on Retreat'' (''ri chos mtshams kyi zhal gdams'') became a classic practical guide for practitioners. Crucially, he served as scribe to the visionary Terton Mingyur Dorje, transcribing almost the entirety of the Namcho ("Sky Teaching") treasure cycle, later collected into thirteen volumes, and he is remembered for compositions synthesizing Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen. His influence on later generations was profound and his students founded lineages that carried both currents of his inheritance: Tsondu Gyatso and Pema Kunga established the Upper and Lower Nedo Kagyu lineages, while his student Rigdzin Kunzang Sherab drew on the Nyingma side to found Pelyul (Palyul) Monastery, which became one of the six "mother monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition. His works were canonized in a sixty-volume Collected Works published by Nedo Monastery in 2010, and he was recognized through a line of seven subsequent reincarnations. Later masters relied heavily on him—historians Guru Tashi and the Eighth Situ Chokyi Jungne, and the great nineteenth-century polymath Jamgön Kongtrul, all wrote about him—and his reach extends into the modern West, where Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche taught Mountain Dharma at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in Woodstock, New York, which became a series of books published at KTD: ''[https://www.ktdpublications.com/mountain-dharma-1/ Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma]''. Also see [https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/karma-chakme/ the Karma Chakme Series at Lotsawa House]. (Sources: Ngawang Sherpa , "Karma Chakme," Treasury of Lives, accessed July 20, 2026, http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Karma-Chakme/9084. and [https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Karma_Chakm%C3%A9 Rigpa Wiki]) Nyomtod region of KhamNyomtod region of Kham People While BDRC gives 1613 – 1678, Treasury of Lives by Ngawang Sherpa updates these with sources in July 2026:" The commonly given date of 1613 is not supported by his autobiography. This account is based on Karma Chakme's outer autobiography, titled ''Rigs rus dang 'brel zhing sangs rgyas kyi bstan pa'i 'jug sgo dang mthun pa phyi yi rnam thar'' (cited under ''Gnas mdo karma chags med'' 2012), in which he details his activities from birth to age fifty-two. The remainder of the biography is based on ''Rgyal ba gnas mdo pa'i bla brgyud dang dam pa'i chos kyi byung ba mdor bsdus dwangs shel me long'' (cited under Unknown. 2010. ''Rgyal ba gnas mdo pa'i bla brgyud dang dam pa'i chos kyi byung ba mdor bsdus dwangs shel me long''. Gnas mdo gsang sngags chos' phel gling. BDRC MW1KG8537.) unless otherwise noted." "Nedo Karma Chakme (gnas mdo karma chags med) was born in 1609, the earth female bird year of the tenth sexagenary cycle, in the Nyomtod (nyoms stod) region of Kham, northwest of Chamdo. " "He passed away in November 1678, on the first day of the tenth month of the earth male horse year." 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