About Gampopa

Gampopa "the man from Gampo" Sönam Rinchen was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher in the Kagyu lineage, as well as a doctor and tantric master who founded the Dagpo Kagyu school. He is also known as Dvagpopa, and the titles Dakpo Lharjé "the physician from Dakpo" and Daö Zhönnu, "Candraprabhakumara".