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... 1323);[82] Rigdzin Godem, Tangtong Gyelpo; Karma Chakme (karma chags med, 1613–1678); Pema Trinle Lingpa (pad+ma 'phrin las gling pa, seventeenth century);[83] Yonge Mingyur Dorje (yongs dge mi 'gyur rdo rje, 1628/41–1708);[84] the translator Bhadrapa (lo tsA bha tra pa);[85] Jangchub Gyeltsen (byang chub rgyal mtshan);[86] Pema Kakyab Lingpa (pad+ma mkha' khyab gling pa);[87] Rangbar Pawo Nuden (rang bar dpa' bo nus ldan); Pema Do-ngak Lingpa (pad+ma mdo sngags gling pa);[88] and the Third Alak Gyelpo Choying Tobden Dorje (a lags rgyal po 03 chos dbyings stobs ldan rdo rje, 1785–1848).[89] He is also said to have been an indeterminate Panchen Sherab Drakpa (paN chen shes rab grags pa).[90] ...

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... They also transmitted certain oral transmissions of the Sakya tradition, and the Mahākāla Cycle (mgon po'i chos skor) of Karma Chakme (karma chags med, 1613–1678) and Loter Wangpo's important scriptural collections, the Compendium of Sādhanas (sgrub thabs kun btus) and the Compendium of Tantras (rgyud sde kun btus) ...

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... In Nangchen, the important Nyingma-Kagyu master Karma Chakme (karma chags med, 1613–1678) introduced him to a young, up-and-coming treasure revealer, Namcho Mingyur Dorje (gnam chos mi 'gyur rdo rje, 1645–1667), with whom he would establish a close bond and exchange treasures.[17] Also around Nangchen, in the early 1660s, Dudul Dorje met another young treasure revealer, then eleven years old—Nyima Drakpa (nyi ma grags pa, 1647–1710), whose career he would support ...

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... He also transmitted additional initiations and teachings of Dorje Lingpa (rdo rje gling pa, 1346–1405), Ratna Lingpa, Namcho Mingyur Dorje, Karma Chakme (kar+ma chags med, 1631–1678), and Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas, 1813–1899) ...

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... In the seventeenth century, the Kagyu-Nyingma master Karma Chakme (karma chags med, 1613–78) composed a thread cross liturgy for expelling dremo ('dre mo), a kind of female demon, in which Margyel Dongkar is evoked as a complicated, troublesome force, but a redeemable one ...

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... Nevertheless, an encounter with the great Karma Kagyu lama Karma Chakme (ka+rma chags med 1610/1613-1678) in 1655, when he was eleven, resulted in his being identified as the reincarnation of the Katok (kaH thog) lama Trulzhik Chenpo Wangdrak Gyatso ('khrul zhig chen po dbang drag rgya mtsho, d ...

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... For reading instruction he used The Words of My Perfect Teacher, the Bhadrakalpikāsūtra, which lists the names of the one thousand buddhas of our aeon, and biographies of Milarepa (mi la ras pa, 1040–1123), Karma Chakme (kar ma chags med, 1613–1678), and others.[5] He later acquired biographies of Lamdre masters from a printed edition prepared by Jamyang Loter Wangpo ('jam dbyangs blo gter dbang po, 1847–1914).[6] ...

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... At that time, the king had also invited Karma Chakme (karma chags med, 1613-1678) one of the greatest living masters uniting Nyingma and Kagyu traditions and the main teacher to Pema Rigdzin ...

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... There he studied reading and writing, and some time after the age of ten, no doubt due to family connections, he became an attendant to Karma Chakme (karma chags med, 1613-1678), one of the greatest Kagyu masters of the seventeenth century, who would be one of his most important teachers. ...

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Patrul is perhaps most famous for his perpetual lessons on Śāntideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, Karma Chakme's (karma chags med, 1613-1678) Dechen Monlam (bde chen smon lam), the Mai Kambum (maNi bka' 'bum), and the chanting of Avalokiteśvara's six-syllable mantra oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ ...

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