Dagpo Rinpoche

PersonType	Category:Ordained (Monks and Nuns) Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers Category:Translators Category:Tulkus
MainNamePhon	Dagpo Rinpoche
nametitlesuf	Rinpoche
SortName	Dagpo Rinpoche
bio	Dagpo Rinpoche, also known as Bamchoe Rinpoche, was born in 1932 in the region of Kongpo, in southeastern Tibet. At the age of two, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama recognized him as the reincarnation of Dagpo Lama Rinpoche Jamphel Lhundrup, Pabonkha Rinpoche’s root guru. When he was six years old he entered Bamchoe Monastery in Dagpo Region where he learned to read and write and began to study the basics of Sutra and Tantra. At age 13 he entered Dagpo Shedrup Ling Monastery to study the Five Great Texts of Buddhist Philosophy. Having studied eleven years at Dagpo Shedrup Ling, Dagpo Rinpoche left to attend the great monastic university of Drepung near Lhasa where he entered one of its four colleges, Gomang Dratsang. He wanted very much to deepen his understanding of Buddhist philosophy in particular on the basis of Jamyang Shepa’s commentaries, which are Gomang Dratsang’s textbooks. For the duration of his stay at Gomang Dratsang (and later in exile, in India and Europe) he studied under the great Mongolian master, Geshe Ngawang Nyima, who later became abbot of the college in exile. Being close to Lhasa, Rinpoche was also able to attend many teachings and receive a great number of oral transmissions from different masters. Today he is one of a few masters to hold such a large number of transmission lineages of Buddha’s teachings. Dagpo Rinpoche has followed thirty-seven masters, in particular the two tutors of H.H. the Dalai Lama, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche and Kyapje Trijang Rinpoche, as well as His Holiness himself. Under them he has studied the Five Great Treatises, Tantra (he has received many initiations and has done retreats), as well as astrology, grammar, poetry and history. Dagpo Rinpoche remained at Gomang Dratsang until the communist invasion in 1959 when he followed his masters into exile in India. Less than a year after his arrival in India, he was invited to France to assist French tibetologists in their research. He taught Tibetan language and Buddhism at the school of oriental studies (INALCO) connected to the Sorbonne in Paris for almost thirty years. Now retired, he continues personal research and study. He has co-authored several books Tibet and on Buddhism and has participated in numerous television and radio programs. (Adapted from Source Mar 24, 2025)
YearBirth	1932
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