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On the twenty-eighth day of the ninth lunar month of the year 1615, the Tsang Desi, then the ruler of most of U and Tsang, Karma Puntsok Namgyel (sde srid karma phun tshogs rnam rgyal, 1550-c.1621) invited the Karmapa to visit him in Yarlung (yar rgyab/yar lung) and Dakpo (dwags po) in southern U ...

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... 1642), the son of Karma Puntsok Wangyel (karma phun tshogs rnam rgyal, 1597-1632) ...

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... Due to historical political rivalry between leaders of U and Tsang, the sudden death at twenty-eight of the Fourth Dalai Lama, who, being of royal Mongolian birth, was championed by the Mongols, emboldened the fifth king of Tsang, Karma Puntsok Namgyel (karma phun tshogs rnam rgyal, 1587-1621) to attack and capture U by early 1618 when Sonam Chopel was just twenty-two ...

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... Among those to whom he reported his travels were the Tsang King Karma Puntsok Namgyel (gtsang sde srid kar+ma phun tshogs rnam rgyal, 1597-1632) and the Fifth Drukchen, who requested he compose an account of the voyage ...

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... Upon returning to Tibet, Tenzin Norbu spent more time at the Gungtang court of the King Sonam Wangchuk and at the Samdrubtse Palace (bsam grub rtse) in Shigatse, the seat of the Tsangpa Desi, Karma Puntsok Namgyel (karma phun tshogs rnam rgyal, c.1597-c.1632) ...

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... During the same time he visited Shigatse at the invitation of the Tsang Desi, Karma Puntsok Namgyel (karma phun tshogs rnam rgyal, 1597-1621), to whom he gave initiations at the Samdrub temple (bsam 'grub) ...

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... His students also included Pelden Dondrub (dpal ldan don grub, 1563-1636), Ngawang Kunga Sonam (ngag dbang kun dga' bsod nams, 1597-1659/60), Tashi Peldrub (bkra shis dpal grub, 1600-1671/2), Karma Tenkyong Wangpo (karma bstan skyong dbang po, 1606-1642), Karma Puntsok Namgyel (kar+ma phun tshogs rnam rgyal, 1597-1632), and Tenpai Nyima (bstan pa'i nyi ma, 1567-1619) ...

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In 1615 the powerful Tsang ruler Desi Puntsok Namgyel (sde srid phun tshogs rnam rgyal) provided a special piece of land and the necessary supplies and workers to begin construction of a monastery to serve as a center for the teachings of the definitive meaning of the Buddha's doctrine ...

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