People/Tai Situpa, 3rd

Third Tai Situ Tashi Paljor

བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་

1498 – 1541

The Third Tai Situ, Tashi Peljor, was a student of the Seventh Karmapa. He recognized the Eighth Karmapa by means of showing him items that had belonged to the Seventh Karmapa, possibly the first time such a method was used to identify reincarnations.

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Other names

• ཏའི་སི་ཏུ་གསུམ་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• ta'i si tu gsum pa · other names (Wylie)
• Tai Situpa, 3rd · other names

Affiliations & relations

• Karma Kagyu · religious affiliation
• Karmapa, 7th · teacher
• Karmapa, 8th · student

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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