Karmapa, 3rd
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རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje(1284 - 1339)
The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, was a prominent Karma Kagyu hierarch who also held Nyingma and Chod lineages. He was likely the first man to carry the title of Karmapa, following his identification by Orgyenpa Rinchen Pal as the reincarnation of Karma Pakshi, whom Orgyenpa posthumously identified as the reincarnation of Dusum Khyenpa. He spent much of his life traveling across Tibet and made two visits to the Yuan court in China.
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Terton Gyatsa Information
| Name in Gyatsa (Tibetan) | ཀརྨ་པ་གསུམ་པ་རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་ |
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| Name in Gyatsa (Wylie) | karma pa gsum pa rang byung rdo rje |
| Page numbers | Rinchen Terdzö, Volume I, Text #6, Pages 702 to 703, folio 181b4 to 182a4 |
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