Four Dharmas of Gampopa

Gampopa Sönam Rinchen

The Four Dharmas of Gampopa (Tib. དྭགས་པོ་་ཆོས་བཞི་, Wyl. dwags po chos bzhi)

lo chö su dro war chin gyi lop Grant your blessing so that my mind may turn towards the Dharma. chö lam du dro war chin gyi lop Grant your blessing so that Dharma may progress along the path. lam trul wa shyik par chin gyi lop Grant your blessing so that the path may clarify confusion. trulpa yeshé su char war chin gyi lop Grant your blessing so that confusion may dawn as wisdom.

༈ བློ་ཆོས་སུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། ། ཆོས་ལམ་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། ། ལམ་འཁྲུལ་བ་ཞིག་པར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། ། འཁྲུལ་པ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སུ་འཆར་བར་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། །

Commentaries

• Longchenpa, A Precious Garland for the Four Themes (of Gampopa) (Skt. dharma chatur ratna mala, Wyl. chos bzhi rin po che’i ‘phreng ba)

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

• Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, San Francisco, Rigpa Center, USA 11-12 September 1998
• Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, France, 25 August 1998
• Sogyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 21 July 1997, am
• Choegon Rinpoche, Rigpa London, UK, 21 May 1994
• Sogyal Rinpoche, Berlin and Dusseldorf, Germany, April 1989
• Khandro Rinpoche, Berlin, Germany, May 28-29 2013
• Khandro Rinpoche, Rigpa Amsterdam, Holland, 23 March 2019
• Neten Chokling Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 18 July 2019

Publications

• Chögyam Trungpa, The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, a seminar given at Karme Chöling, July 1975 (Vajradhatu Publications)
• Thrangu Rinpoche, The Four Dharmas of Gampopa (Namo Buddha Publications, 1999)
• Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Repeating the Words of the Buddha (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1992), Chapter 2.