Person:Sgam po pa

Names

Tibetan: སྒམ་པོ་པ་

Wylie:

• sgam po pa
• dwags po lha rje
• dwags po rin po che
• rje dwags po rin po che
• sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen
• dwags po lha rje bsod nams rin chen
• sgam po pa dar ma grags
• zla 'od gzhon nu (Candraprabhakumara)
• snyi ba rin po che

Other Transliterations in use:

• Jé Gampopa
  
• Gampopa
  
• Dakpo Rinpoche
• Takpo Rinpoche
• Je Dakpo Rinpoche
• Je Takpo Rinpoche
• Candraprabhakumara
• Da'od Zhonnu (the Tibetan for Candraprabhakumara)
• Dagpo Lhaje ("the Physician from Dagpo")
• Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche ("Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo")
• Ü-pa Tönpa

Dates

birth 1079 at dbus lho gnyal yul
death 1153
foundsMonastery 1121 at dwags lha sgam po (rgya tsha rdzong)

Other Biographical Information

TBRC P1844
Short Gampopa biography from Kagyu Office website
List of works compiled by Dan Martin

Married (not recorded): Mchims Jo-sras Dar-ma-'od's daughter.
1104. Final ordination from (not recorded): Dge-bshes Blo-ldan-shes-rab (?=Rngog).
1106. Went with 'Gong-ston to Dbu-ru Byang.
Receives Bka'-gdams-pa teachings from Snyug-rum-pa Brtson-'grus-rgyal-mtshan.
1109. Meets Mi-la-ras-pa.
Founds Dwags-lha-sgam-po at the order of Mi-la-ras-pa.
Gsung 'bum in two volumes.
Tshe-nor gives year of birth as 1079.

Main Students

• rdo rje rgyal po
• dus gsum mkhyen pa
• shes rab byang chub
• tshul khrims snying po
• dwags po 'dul 'dzin
• shwo sgom
• dar ma dbang phyug
• brtson 'grus grags pa
• rin chen brtson 'grus
• tshul khrims dpal
• pra b+ha rat+na
• chos g.yung
• sgom tshul
• byang chub ye shes
• shes rab gzhon nu
• byang chub dngos grub

Main Teachers

• mi la ras pa
• brtson 'grus rgyal mtshan
• gzhon nu 'od

Writings

• Works associated with Sgam po pa in the gdams ngag mdzod catalog

• chos rje rang byung rdo rjes mdzad pa'i rlung sems gnyis med (9, pp 167-173)
• dwags po rin po che'i chos bzhi mdor bsdus pa (8, pp 397-400)
• lus med mkha' 'gro'i bsnyan brgyud kyi man ngag gi khrid yig (8, pp 197-201)