Sgam po pa

Sgam po pa on the DRL

Classical Tibetan Authors

སྒམ་པོ་པ་

Wylie	sgam po pa
English Phonetics	Gampopa

 

 

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Other names

• དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་
• བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་
• དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་
• དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་

• dwags po lha rje
• bsod nams rin chen
• dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu
• dwags po rin po che

Alternate names

• 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

Dates

Birth:	1079
Death:	1153
Place of birth:	gnyal bud nyi'i bye brag ser lung

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

Day
Month
Gender	Female
Element	Earth
Animal	Sheep
Rab Jyung	1

Dates of passing

Day
Month
Gender
Element
Animal
Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Kagyu

Has following emanations

[[|Dakpo Tashi NamgyalDagpo Tulku]]

Teachers

mi la ras pa

Students

Phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po · Karmapa, 1st · Zhang brtson 'grus grags pa

Other Biographical info:

Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1844

Treasury of Lives Link

http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Gampopa-Sonam-Rinchen/3168

Treasury of Lives Excerpt

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.

Himalayan Art Resources Link or Other Art Resource

https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1119

Wiki Pages

• Sgam po pa on the DRL
• Sgam po pa on the LIB
• Sgam po pa on the RTZ
• Sgam po pa on the DNZ
• Sgam po pa on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.

Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.