Karma Lingpa

Karma Lingpa
Tibetan: ཀརྨ་གླིང་པ་, Wylie: kar ma gling pa
Personal life
Born1326
Died1386
Religious life
ReligionTibetan Buddhism
OrderNyingma
ProfessionTertön, revealer of the Bardo Thodol.
Senior posting
ReincarnationChokro Lü Gyeltsen

Karma Lingpa (1326–1386) was the tertön (revealer) of the Bardo Thodol, the so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead. Tradition holds that he was a reincarnation of Chokro Lü Gyeltsen, a disciple of Padmasambhava.