982 – 1054 CE
Atisha
The great Indian master who revived Buddhism in Tibet and first composed the graduated path teaching — the forerunner of the Lamrim — in his Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment.
Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche & The Lineage
Kyabje Dagpo
Kyabje Dagpo
Rinpoche
Root teacher of Mati Bhadra Sagara and living custodian of the Lamrim tradition as transmitted from Je Tsongkhapa.
The Life of a Master
Born in 1932 in Tibet, Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche — Bamchoe Rinpoche — entered monastic life at the age of seven and received a rigorous classical Gelug education at Dagpo Monastery. He memorised vast volumes of scripture and engaged in intensive debate, earning the highest geshe degree by his early twenties.
Following the events of 1959, Rinpoche fled Tibet and eventually settled in France, where he became one of the foremost Tibetan Buddhist teachers in the West. Over six decades he has taught the Lamrim Chenmo in dharma centres across Europe and Asia, transmitting the teachings with extraordinary precision and warmth.
Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche is among the last living masters who received the complete Lamrim transmission in pre-occupation Tibet. His presence and instruction remain the living root of all study at Mati Bhadra Sagara.
Study Under This Lineage
The Lamrim Lineage
From Source to Present
The Lamrim as we study it today descends through an unbroken line of masters, each of whom received, practised, and transmitted the teachings with fidelity to the original intent.
1357 – 1419 CE
Je Tsongkhapa
The founder of the Gelug school and composer of the Lamrim Chenmo — the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path — which remains the definitive expression of the graduated path to enlightenment.
Present Day
His Holiness
His Holiness
the Dalai Lama
The living head of the Gelug tradition, from whom Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche received direct transmissions and whose teachings continue to guide the Lamrim lineage in the modern world.
"Without an authentic lineage, the Dharma risks becoming a mere intellectual pursuit. The transmission ensures the pulse of the Buddha's original intent remains alive."
Bridge Across Worlds
An Ancient Path
An Ancient Path
for Modern Minds
Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche spent decades living and teaching in France, developing an extraordinary fluency in bringing the Tibetan Lamrim tradition into dialogue with Western intellectual culture. His approach is at once traditional and immediately accessible.
Mati Bhadra Sagara inherits this bridge. Our study groups are conducted in English and draw on both classical Tibetan commentaries and modern frameworks for understanding the mind. Students need not convert, renounce prior beliefs, or adopt Tibetan cultural forms — the path itself is the practice.
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