Person:Sgam po pa

Names

Tibetan: སྒམ་པོ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་

Wylie:

• dwags po lha rje
• sgam po pa
• 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)

Other Transliterations in use:

• Sgam po pa Bsod nams rin chen
• Jé Gampopa
  
• Gampopa
  
• 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

• 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)