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དྭགས་པོ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
Dakpo Tashi Namgyal(1513 - 1587)
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Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (Dakpo Paṇchen Tashi Namgyel, Wylie: dwags po paN chen bkra shis rnam rgyal) (1513–1587) was a lineage holder of the Dagpo Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was also trained in the Sakya lineage and was renowned as a scholar and yogi.

He should not be confused with his namesake, also known as Kunkyen Tashi Namgyal, (1399–1458), who helped establish Penpo Nalendra Monastery in 1425 with Sakya master Rongton Sheja Kunrig (1367–1449). Later in life he served as chief abbot of the Kagyu Daklha Gampo Monastery in southern Tibet.

His most famous works were two Mahamudra texts, Moonbeams of Mahamudra and Clarifying the Natural State. (Source Accessed Feb 28, 2020)

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Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā
This classic Buddhist work, written in the sixteenth century, comprehensively presents the entire scope of the Tibetan Kagyu Mahāmudrā tradition. These profound yet accessible instructions focus on becoming familiar with the nature of one’s mind as the primary means to realize ultimate reality and thus attain buddhahood. Dakpo Tashi Namgyal’s manual for the view and practice of Mahāmudrā is widely considered the single most important work on the subject, systematically introducing the view and associated meditation techniques in a progressive manner. Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā, along with the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje’s Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance, are to this day some of the most studied texts on Mahāmudrā in the Kagyu monasteries throughout Tibet and the Himalayas. Elizabeth M. Callahan, a renowned translator of classical Kagyu literature, has provided new translations of these two texts along with ancillary materials and annotations, making this a genuine resource for both scholars and students of Tibetan Buddhism. This historic contribution therefore offers the necessary tools to properly study and apply the Mahāmudrā teachings in a modern context. (Source: Shambhala Publications)
Callahan, Elizabeth M., trans. Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā. By Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (dwags po bkra shis rnam rgyal). With Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance by Wangchuk Dorje (dbang phyug rdo rje), the Ninth Karmapa. Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications, 2019.


Other names

  • སྒམ་པོ་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • དྭགས་པོ་པཎ་ཆེན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • སྒམ་པོ་པ་པཎ་ཆེན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • sgam po pa bkra shis rnam rgyal · other names (Wylie)
  • dwags po paN chen bkra shis rnam rgyal · other names (Wylie)
  • sgam po pa paN chen bkra shis rnam rgyal · other names (Wylie)
  • Takpo Tashi Namgyal · other names
  • Gampopa Tashi Namgyal · other names
  • Tashi Namgyal · other names
  • Dakpo Panchen Tashi Namgyal · other names
  • Dakpo Paṇchen Tashi Namgyal · other names
  • Gampo Panchen Tashi Namgyal · other names
  • Gampo Paṇchen Tashi Namgyal · other names

Affiliations & relations

  • Kagyu · religious affiliation
  • sgam po pa · emanation of
  • Drukchen, 4th · student

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the firsts monastery of the Kagyu order and as many as twelve sub-traditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khon family of Tsang, which maintained an Imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib. ས་སྐྱ་

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