Gampopa

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Gampopa

སྒམ་པོ་པ་

1079 – 1153

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.

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དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་dwags po lha rjebsod nams rin chendwags po zla 'od gzhon nudwags po rin po cheJé GampopaDakpo RinpocheTakpo RinpocheJe Dakpo RinpocheJe Takpo RinpocheDa'od ZhonnuDagpo LhajeThe Physician from DagpoNyamed Dakpo RinpocheThe Incomparible Precious One from DagpoÜ-pa Tönpa

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Student of

Milarepa

Teacher of

Pakmodrupa Dorje GyalpoKarmapa1stLama Zhang

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Kagyu - 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. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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Mahāmudrā - 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. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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