Gampopa
1079 CE–1153 CE · Nyal (Lhokha)
1079–1153 CE
Gampopa (1079–1153 CE) was the disciple of Milarepa who gave the Kagyu school its institutional and doctrinal shape. A trained physician before he took monastic vows, he fused the monastic 'stages of the path' inheritance of the Kadam tradition with the yogic Mahāmudrā transmission he received from Milarepa, and his 'Jewel Ornament of Liberation' became a standard handbook. His disciples founded the several Kagyu sub-lineages. He is a well-attested historical figure.
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Nyal (Lhokha)
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Birthplace of Gampopa.
About Nyal (Lhokha)
Nyal is a district of southern Tibet, in the Lhokha (Lhoka) region. It was the birthplace, in 1079, of Gampopa (Dakpo Lharjé), the physician-monk who became Milarepa's foremost disciple, unified the Kadam and Mahāmudrā streams, and founded the Dakpo Kagyu tradition.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Gampopa’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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- Imad ad-Din Zengi· 1085 CE–1146 CE
- John II Komnenos· 1087 CE–1143 CE
- al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah· 1096 CE–1130 CE
- Ahmad Sanjar· 1086 CE–1157 CE
- Emperor Huizong of Song· 1082 CE–1135 CE
- Lord Four Wind 'Fire Serpent'· 1092 CE–
- Mstislav I of Kiev (Mstislav the Great)· 1076 CE–1132 CE
- Muhammad I Tapar· 1082 CE–1118 CE
- Kilij Arslan I· 1079 CE–1107 CE
- Barkiyaruq· 1080 CE–1105 CE
- Andrey Bogolyubsky· 1111 CE–1174 CE
- Vladimir Monomakh· 1053 CE–1125 CE
- Lord Eight Deer 'Jaguar Claw'· 1063 CE–1115 CE
- Alexios I Komnenos· 1057 CE–1118 CE
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