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སྒམ་པོ་པ་
Gampopa(1079 - 1153) 
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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  • དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • dwags po lha rje · other names (Wylie)
  • bsod nams rin chen · other names (Wylie)
  • dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu · other names (Wylie)
  • dwags po rin po che · other names (Wylie)
  • Jé Gampopa · other names
  • Dakpo Rinpoche · other names
  • Takpo Rinpoche · other names
  • Je Dakpo Rinpoche · other names
  • Je Takpo Rinpoche · other names
  • Da'od Zhonnu · other names
  • Dagpo Lhaje · other names
  • The Physician from Dagpo · other names
  • Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche · other names
  • The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo · other names
  • Ü-pa Tönpa · other names

Affiliations & relations

  • Kagyu · religious affiliation
  • mi la ras pa · teacher
  • Phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po · student
  • Karmapa, 1st · student
  • Zhang brtson 'grus grags pa · student