10 Facts About Gampopa

Gampopa authored the first Lamrim text, Jewel Ornament of Liberation, and founded the Dagpo Kagyu school.

Gampopa is known as Dvagpopa, and by the titles Dakpo Lharje "the physician from Dakpo" and Dao Zhonnu, "Candraprabhakumara".

Gampopa was born in the Nyal district, Central Tibet and from an early age was a student of medicine in the Indian, Chinese and Tibetan medical traditions.

Gampopa married a daughter of a man named Chim Jose Darma Wo and had a child, but they both died, causing him to renounce the householder's life.

Gampopa had many great students who were accomplished tantric practitioners, both monks and laymen.

Gampopa's teaching joined the Lamrim teachings of the Kadampa school with the Mahamudra and tantric teachings of the Kagyu school.

Gampopa is the source of the major surviving Kagyu sub-schools, all known as the Dagpo Kagyu.

The Path is to be used to dispel confusion means that "confusion has to be dispelled from top to bottom", Gampopa explains this as follows:.

The doctrine is the subject of several further short texts found in Gampopa's collected works and numerous commentaries by later authors.

Gampopa's collected works were published in Dvag Lha Gampo monastery, but that edition has been lost.