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... I'm so happy." When some elderly people nearby asked him why he would be happy about the harvest in Yarlung, hundreds of kilometers away, he replied: "My guru from past lives, the omniscient second Buddha resides there." This is taken by tradition to be a reference to Jigme Lingpa ('jigs med gling pa, 1730-1785), who would become his root teacher ...
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... This was a commission by the Fourth Zhamar, Chokyi Drakpa (zhwa dmar 04 chos grags ye shes, 1453–1524) to paint the murals of Zhamar's seat, Yangpachen Monastery (G198 yangs pa can), that was under construction at the time ...
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... The following year he matriculated at the Karma Kagyu monastery Yangpachen (yang pa can), which had been established in around 1503 by the Fourth Zhamar, Chodrak Yeshe (zhwa dmar 04 chos grags ye shes, 1453-1524) ...
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... According to Guru Tashi, the lineage came to him from Nyida Sanggye (nyi zla sangs rgyas, d.u.), who received it from the eighteenth abbot of Drigung, Rinchen Puntsok ('bri gung rin chen phun tshogs, 1509-1557), a disciple of the Fourth Zhamarpa, Chodrak Yeshe (zhwa dmar chos grags ye shes, 1453-1524) ...
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... The second was the Rinpung (rin spungs) family based in Shigatse, then led by Donyo Dorje (don yod rdo rje, 1464/65–1512).[8] It has been suggested that this support by the latter, who was a close patron of the Fourth Zhamarpa, Chodrak Yeshe Pel Zangpo (zhwa dmar pa 04 chos grags ye shes dpal bzang po, 1453-1524), was the reason that the Zhamarpa, who would have been the most suitable principal tutor for the Eighth Karmapa, assumed a relatively low-key role in the recognition process and did not meet him.[9] ...
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... The Fourth Zharma, Drakpa Yeshe (zhwa dmar 04 chos grags ye shes, 145–1524), another Karma Kagyu hierarch who would have been expected to train the Eighth Karmapa, was then far away in central Tibet ...
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... At the age of nine, the Fourth Zhamar, Chodrak Yeshe (zhwa dmar 04 chos grags ye shes 1453-1524) granted him the vows of upasaka (dge bsnyen), primary monk (rab byung), and novice monk (dge tsul) and gave him the name Mipam Chokyi Gyatso (mi pham chos kyi rgya mtsho) ...
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