People/Dol pa shes rab rgya mtsho

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Dölpa Sherab Gyatso

དོལ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

1059 – 1131

Geshé Dölpa was a prominent transmitter of the Kadam teachings known by several names, including Dölpa Marshurwa, Sherap Gyatso, and simply “Spiritual mentor of Döl” (Geshé Dölpa), after his home region. After studying with a number of teachers, he met the highly influential Kadampa master Potowa Rinchen Sal (1017/31-1105) and stayed with him for twenty-two years. In later years Geshé Dölpa founded his own monastery of Yangang in Döl. The chronicles mention that he had more than a thousand disciples, including the famous Kagyu hierarch Phakmodrupa Dorjé Gyalpo. (Adapted from Stages of the Buddha’s Teachings (Wisdom Publications, 2015), 6)

Other names

• དོལ་པ་དམར་ཞུར་བ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• རོག་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
• dol pa dmar zhur ba · other names (Wylie)
• rog shes rab rgya mtsho · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

• Kadam · religious affiliation
• po to ba rin chen gsal · teacher

Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib. བཀའ་གདམས་

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Kagyu - 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 first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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