Khakhyap Dorje

Khakhyap Dorje (Tib. མཁའ་ཁྱབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. mkha' khyab rdo rje), the Fifteenth Karmapa (1870/1-1921/2), was a student of both Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrul. He revealed both earth and mind termas. His two sons were Karsé Kongtrul and the Eleventh Shamarpa. One of his consorts was the great dakini of Tsurphu, Khandro Ugyen Tsomo (1897-1961).

Writings

• ཀུན་བཟང་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་དོན་འགྲེལ་ཉུང་ངུ་མཆན་བུ་, kun bzang smon lam gyi don 'grel nyung ngu mchan bu, a commentary on the Prayer of Kuntuzangpo

Further Reading

• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Blazing Splendor: The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (Boudhanath, Hong Kong, Esby: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2005), Ch. 7, 'Lord of Activity, the Fifteenth Karmapa'.

Internal Links

• Karmapa Incarnation Line

External Links

• TBRC profile