Dagpo Gomchen Ngawang Drakpa

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Dagpo Gomchen Ngawang Drakpa
MainNameTib	དྭགས་པོ་སྒོམ་ཆེན་ངག་དབང་གྲགས་པ
MainNameWylie	dwags po sgom chen ngag dbang grags pa
bio	Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo (15th century) Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo, also known as Gomchen Ngawang Drakpa, was born in the Tsang region of Tibet in the 15th century. He became a great scholar and tantric adept having studied the great texts under the preeminent Gelugpa masters of the day, including Gyaltsab Je, Khedrub Je, and Choeje Lodro Tenpa. A wandering monastic community called Dagpo Dratsang had formed under his teacher, Je Lodro Tenpa, with the monks travelling from monastery to monastery debating as they went. Je Lodron Tenpa entrusted this community to Ngawang Drakpa and under his abbotship they finally settled at Gyatsa in Dagpo under the name of Thösamling. This was the first monastic university for advanced studies in Buddhist philosophy in Dagpo, and it later became known as Dagpo Shedrub Ling. Ngawang Drakpa’s collected works comprise 19 volumes. He wrote a commentary on the Bodhicittavivaraṇa titled Rnam shes nor bu phreng ba (རྣམ་ཤེས་ནོར་བུ་ཕྲེང་བ་). (Source Accessed Sep 24, 2025)
DatesNotes	15th century
BDRC	http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P1846
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