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... The Karmapa invited the Fifth Tsurpu Gyeltsab, Drakpa Chokyang (mtshur phu rgyal tshab 05 grags pa mchog dbyangs, 1617-1658) to come and perform the funeral rites ...

Read more from the biography of Choying Dorje


The Tenth Karmapa was exiled for the next twenty-four years but according to his biography by Mendong Tsampa (sman sdong mtshams pa), his deputy the Fifth Gyeltsab Rinpoche (rgyal tshab 05 grags pa mchog dbyangs, 1617-1658) went to Lhasa in 1653 and successfully petitioned Lobzang Gyatso, Sonam Chopel and Gushri Khan for the return of their twenty-one most important monasteries ...

Read more from the biography of Sonam Chopel


... Among his other students were the Fifth Tsurpu Gyeltsab, Drakpa Choying (mtshur phu rgyal tshab 05 grags pa mchog dbyangs, 1617-1658), Tsele Natsko Rangdrol (rtse le sna tshogs rang grol, b ...

Read more from the biography of Tsuklak Gyatso


... Only the skillful intervention by the Fifth Tsurpu Gyeltsab, Drakpa Chokyang (mtshur phu rgyal tshab grags pa mchog dbyangs) prevented the Karma Kagyu from suffering the same fate;  that tradition was forced only to return monasteries it had converted during the height of the Tsang kings’ power and his patronage of the Karma Kagyu tradition. ...

Read more from the biography of Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso