2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi

He also visited and restored the monasteries established by the first Karmapa and is famous for having introduced to the Tibetan people communal chanting of the Om mani padme hum mantra of compassion.

At the age of forty-seven he set out on a three-year journey to China, in response to an invitation from Kublai, grandson of Genghis Khan.

He established the city of Cambalu, the site of present-day Beijing, from which he ruled a vast empire stretching as far as Burma, Korea, and Tibet.

Returning to Tibet towards the end of his life, the 2nd Karmapa had an enormous sixteen-meter statue of the Gautama Buddha built at Tsurphu Monastery, to fulfill a dream he had had long before.

Recording at Library of Congress, Washington DC, of Charles Manson on "Karma Pakshi and Two Mongol Emperors: Genesis of the Reincarnate Lamas Tradition".