*[[Da'od Zhonnu]] (the Tibetan for Candraprabhakumara)
*[[Dagpo Lhaje]] ("the Physician from Dagpo")
*[[Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche]] ("Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo")
*[[Ü-pa Tönpa]]
== Dates ==
birth 1079 at dbus lho gnyal yul<br>
death 1153<br>
foundsMonastery 1121 at dwags lha sgam po (rgya tsha rdzong)<br>
== Other Biographical Information ==
[http://tbrc.org/link?RID=P1844 TBRC P1844]<br>
[http://www.kagyuoffice.org/kagyulineage.gampopa.html Short Gampopa biography from Kagyu Office website]<br>
[[Gampopa's Works|List of works compiled by Dan Martin]]<br>
Married (not recorded): Mchims Jo-sras Dar-ma-'od's daughter.<br>
1104. Final ordination from (not recorded): Dge-bshes Blo-ldan-shes-rab (?=Rngog).<br>
1106. Went with 'Gong-ston to Dbu-ru Byang.<br>
Receives Bka'-gdams-pa teachings from Snyug-rum-pa Brtson-'grus-rgyal-mtshan.<br>
1109. Meets Mi-la-ras-pa.<br>
Founds Dwags-lha-sgam-po at the order of Mi-la-ras-pa.<br>
Gsung 'bum in two volumes.<br>
Tshe-nor gives year of birth as 1079.<br>
== Main Students ==
*rdo rje rgyal po
*[[dus gsum mkhyen pa]]
*shes rab byang chub
*tshul khrims snying po
*dwags po 'dul 'dzin
*shwo sgom
*dar ma dbang phyug
*brtson 'grus grags pa
*rin chen brtson 'grus
*tshul khrims dpal
*pra b+ha rat+na
*chos g.yung
*sgom tshul
*byang chub ye shes
*shes rab gzhon nu
*byang chub dngos grub
== Main Teachers ==
*[[mi la ras pa]]
*[[brtson 'grus rgyal mtshan]]
*[[gzhon nu 'od]]
== Quotes ==
== Writings About {{PAGENAME}} ==
== Writings ==
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Latest revision as of 01:56, 29 March 2018
Gampopa
སྒམ་པོ་པ་
Gampopa Sonam Rinchen, also known as Dakpo Lhaje, is credited with founding the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Trained first as a medical doctor and then ordained as a Kadam monk, Gampopa met Milarepa when he was thirty years old, and spent much of the next decades in meditation retreat. Never renouncing his monastic vows, he combined the Indian Mahāsiddha practices brought back to Tibet by Marpa and others with the monastic order of his Kadampa teachers. He also united the Kadam teachings of Lamrim with the Mahāmudrā teachings he received from Milarepa. He founded Daklha Gampo in 1121 and trained many of the greatest Kagyu masters of all time, including the First Karmapa and Pakmodrupa. ... read more at
mnyam med rje btsun sgam po pa rin po che'i zhal gdams gsang lam bla ma sgrub pa'i man ngag gi sgrub thabs phrin las kyi byang bu bklag chog tu bkod pa nyi ma'i snying po ye shes rgyan gyi bla bre
