Chödrak Gyatso, 7th Karmapa Lama

Chödrak Gyatso (Tibetan: ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Chos grags rgya mtsho) (1454–1506), also Chödrag Gyamtso, was the seventh Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Chödrak Gyatso was born in Chida in the north of Tibet. According to the legend, he said at the age of five months: "There is nothing on this world, except for emptiness." He was recognized as Karmapa at the age of nine months. According to the legend he established peace at the age of five during a tour through Tibet where in the south the tribes of Nagaland and Bhutan were engaged in a war.

Chödrak Gyatso, 7th Karmapa Lama

Chödrak Gyatso (Tibetan: ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Chos grags rgya mtsho) (1454–1506), also Chödrag Gyamtso, was the seventh Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Chödrak Gyatso was born in Chida in the north of Tibet. According to the legend, he said at the age of five months: "There is nothing on this world, except for emptiness." He was recognized as Karmapa at the age of nine months. According to the legend he established peace at the age of five during a tour through Tibet where in the south the tribes of Nagaland and Bhutan were engaged in a war.