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Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama

ཀརྨ་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ། bo 德银协巴, zh デシンシェクパ ja

Karmapa Lama

  • Child of Guru Rinchen and Lhamo Kyi
  • Dated 14 July 1384 CE – 13 September 1415 CE

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Family tree

The family as a list · 2

Family 2

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

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