Sgam po pa

སྒམ་པོ་པ་
Gampopa (1079 - 1153) Born in: gnyal bud nyi'i bye brag ser lung <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Female Earth Sheep, 1^st sexagenary cycle. <br>

 

 

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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.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	sgam po pa	སྒམ་པོ་པ
Other Names	dwags po lha rje bsod nams rin chen dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu dwags po rin po che Jé Gampopa Dakpo Rinpoche Takpo Rinpoche Je Dakpo Rinpoche Je Takpo Rinpoche Da'od Zhonnu Dagpo Lhaje The Physician from Dagpo Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo Ü-pa Tönpa	དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་ བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་ དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་ དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Kagyu
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations	Dagpo Tulku Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
Teachers	mi la ras pa
Students	Phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po Karmapa, 1st Zhang brtson 'grus grags pa

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1844
Treasury of Lives	http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gampopa-Sonam-Rinchen/3168
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1119