The Treasury of Lives

The Goshri Gyeltsab is an important Karma Kamtsang incarnation line established in the fifteenth century with a seat at Tsurpu Monastery. The First Goshri Gyeltsab, Peljor Dondrub, was identified by the Sixth Karmapa, Tongwa Donden as the reincarnation of Kharchen Pelgyi Wangchuk, one of the twenty-five disciples of Padmasambhava. The Sixth Karmapa appointed him the regent, or gyeltsab of his own seat at Tsurpu. The title "goshri," the Tibetan rendering of the Chinese title National Preceptor (guoshi 国师) was given to the Peljor Dondrub by the Ming emperor Zhengtong.