Definitions for "GAMPOPA"
Keywords:  kagyu, lineage, founder, dagpo, lhaje
Lineage teacher of the Kagyu sect. A pupil of Tilopa, the poet. A renowned scholar and founder of the Kagyu school, and Karmapa lineage.
( Tib.): (1079-1153). Predicted by the Buddha, the "Physician from Dhagpo" was the most famous disciple of Milarepa and founder of the Kagyu monastic order. Gampopa brought together the mahamudra lineage of Milarepa with the Kadampa tradition of mahayana mind training. Gampopa is said to have had 50,000 students and was the first of the Kagyu lineage to teach widely.
Gampopa (1079-1153), also known as Dagpo Lhaje ("physician from Dagpo") and Dakpo Rinpoche ("Precious Master from Dagpo"), founded the Kagyu school, one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In many ways the establishment of the Kagyu school marks the beginning of the distinct institution we now recognize as Tibetan Buddhism, even as the Indian Tantric Buddhism model that inspired it faded away.