Deshin Shekpa (Standard Tibetan: དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་) (1384–1415), also Deshin Shegpa, Dezhin Shekpa and Dezhin Shegpa, was the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa, head...

Karmapa but Deshin Shekpa demurred, as parts of Tibet were still firmly controlled by partisans of the former Yuan dynasty. Deshin Shekpa left Nanjing...

made a concerted effort to build a secular and religious alliance with Deshin Shekpa, the Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu school. However, the Yongle Emperor's...

fifth Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the lama Deshin Shekpa, finally visits the Ming dynasty capital, then at Nanjing. In his twenty-two-day...

realization. The physical crown displayed by the Karmapas was offered to Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama by the Yongle Emperor of China as a material representation...

1407 by the Yongle Emperor of Ming China. He was a close disciple of Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama, who appointed him abbot of Karma Goen, the Karmapa's...

the Yongle Emperor sent messages, gifts, and envoys to Tibet inviting Deshin Shekpa, the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, to...

4th Karmapa Lama, 1340–1383 2nd Shamarpa, Khacho Wangpo, 1350–1405 CE Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama, 1384–1415 CE Ratnabhadra (dates unknown) Thongwa...

fifth Karmapa of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the lama Deshin Shekpa, finally visits the Ming dynasty capital, then at Nanjing. In his twenty-two-day...

1407 by the Yongle Emperor of Ming China. He was a close disciple of Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama, who appointed him abbot of Karma Goen, the Karmapa's...

Deshin Shekpa, wearing the Black Crown...

founded by Trungmase, 1st Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche, a student of Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama, this sub-sect was centered on Surmang Monastery,...

equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). 1407 – Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the Ming dynasty capital at Nanjing and is...

Tongpon Rilu and Akyima. At the age of seven, he received lay vows from Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama, the fifth Gyalwa Karmapa of the Kagyu school of Tibetan...

lho kha 'phyongs rgyas. He was a student of the fifth Karmapa Lama, Deshin Shekpa (1384-1415), from whom he received the bodhisattva precepts, as well...

1402–1424) continued to support and invite Tibetan lamas to court, including Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama. Tibetan Buddhism thus continued to spread among the...

dynasty) War: Hồ Quý Ly's counteroffensive against Ming forces fails April Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama arrives in Nanjing to perform religious ceremonies...

City and Beijing city fortifications. 1407 10 April The Kagyu karmapa Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama arrived at the Ming capital Nanjing. 16 June Ming–Hồ...

dgon pa) was founded about 600 years ago by Trungmase, a student of Deshin Shekpa, the 5th Gyalwa Karmapa. The name in Tibetan means "many cornered" referring...

3rd Karmapa (Rangjung Dorje) 4th Karmapa (Rolpe Dorje) 5th Karmapa (Deshin Shekpa) 6th Karmapa (Thongwa Dönden) 7th Karmapa (Chödrak Gyatso) 8th Karmapa...

Preceded by Rangjung Dorje Reincarnation of the Karmapa Succeeded by Deshin Shekpa...

Preceded by Deshin Shekpa Reincarnation of the Karmapa Succeeded by Chödrak Gyatso...

1st Karmapa Düsum Khyenpa (dus gsum mkhyen pa). History records that Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama gave the title of Situ to his disciple, Chokyi Gyaltsen...