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          Gampopa ( C.E.) was a great scholar and tantric practitioner at an early age.

        1. Gampopa ( C.E.) was a great scholar and tantric practitioner at an early age.
        2. Gampopa was born to them in , which in Tibetan astrology was the earth sheep year.
        3. Gampopa was a bhikshu, an accomplished doctor who had a natural talent for medicine.
        4. Gampopa is credited with establishing the Kagyu path, combining Kadampa Lamrim teachings with the Mahamudra teachings he received from Milarepa.
        5. Book - Here is the first complete life story of Gampopa, foremost disciple of Milarepa and a forefather of the Kagyu lineages.

          6. Gampopa was a bhikshu, an accomplished doctor who had a natural talent for medicine.!

          Gampopa

          Tibetan Buddhist teacher, monk and philosopher (1079–1153)

          Gampopa Sönam Rinchen
          སྒམ་པོ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན།

          Bornc.

          1079 CE

          Budnyi Chedrak Serlung, Nyel valley, Gyaza dzong and Lung dzong, Tibet

          Diedc. 1153 CE
          Occupation(s)Buddhist teacher, monk and philosopher
          Known forFounder of the Dagpo Kagyu school and Daklha Gampo monastery, teacher of sutra Mahamudra.

          Gampopa Sönam Rinchen (Tibetan: སྒམ་པོ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་, Wylie: sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen, 1079–1153) was the main student of Milarepa, and a Tibetan Buddhist master who codified his own master's ascetic teachings, which form the foundation of the Kagyu educational tradition.

          Compiled from numerous Tibetan biographies, this comprehensive and inspiring rendition highlights the extraordinary details of Gampopa's meditative.

          Gampopa was also a doctor and tantric master. He authored the first Lamrim text, Jewel Ornament of Liberation, and founded the Dagpo Kagyu school. He is also known as Dvagpopa, and by the titles Dakpo Lharjé "the physician from Dakpo" (Tibetan: དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་, Wylie: dwags po lha rje)