Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (Dakpo Paṇchen Tashi Namgyel; Tibetan: དྭགས་པོ་པཎ་ཆེན་བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ, Wylie: dwags po paN chen bkra shis rnam rgyal, THL: dak po pen chen tra shi nam gyel) (1511, 1512, or 1513–1587) was a lineage holder of the Dagpo Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.[1] He was also trained in the Sakya lineage,[2] and "was renowned as both a scholar and yogi."[1]
His "most famous works" were two Mahamudra texts, Moonlight of Mahamudra and Clarifying the Natural State.[1] The latter is a meditation manual which
"sketches the path of meditation from the initial steps of the general and specific preliminaries ...," focusing on "the establishment and stabilisation of mindfulness and calm, through shamatha practice, and developing analytical understanding through vipashyana techniques."[6]
As of 2012, some of his works were available in Tibetan in the "Rigpa Dorje Practice Series."[7]
"Much of what we know about Tashi Namgyal and his reincarnations has come from an account written down by Lama Trinle Choedak, the personal tutor of the 6th Zimwock Rinpoche."[2]
Dakpo Tashi Namgyal; Elizabeth Callahan (translator) (2019). Moonbeams of Mahamudra (Tsadra) (1st ed.). 4720 Walnut St., Ste. 106, Boulder, CO, USA: Snow Lion. ISBN978-1559394802. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
Dakpo Tashi Namgyal; Traleg Kyabgon (translator) (2016). Moonbeams of Mahamudra: The Classic Meditation Manual (1st ed.). Ballarat, Victoria, Australia: Shogam Publications. ISBN978-0980502237. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
Bkra-shis-rnam-rgyal; Peter Alan Roberts (translator) (2010). "Light Rays from the Jewel of the Excellent Teaching: A General Presentation on the Points of Secret Mantra". Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions: Core Teachings of the Kagyü Schools. 199 Elm Street, Somerville, MA, USA: Wisdom Publications. pp. 401–620. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
Dakpo Tashi Namgyal; Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (translator) (2006). Mahāmudrā - the Moonlight: Quintessence of Mind and Meditation (2nd ed.). 199 Elm Street, Somerville, MA, USA: Wisdom Publications. ISBN0-86171-299-4. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
Bkra-śis-rnam-rgyal; Erik Pema Kunsang (translator) (2001). Clarifying the natural state: a principal guidance manual for Mahamudra. 1790 30th Street, Suite 280, Boulder, CO, USA: Rangjung Yeshe. ISBN9627341452. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
^Townsend, Dominique (February 2010). "Rongton Sheja Kunrik". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
