Dagpo Lhaje He was born in 1079. When he was young he studied medicine and became famous as a lhaje, or Doctor of Medicine. He married and had two children, a son and a daughter. However, when his wife and children died during an epidemic, he was so sad that he became a monk. He received many oral teachings. When he heard the name Milarepa, a deep devotion arose in him, and he went and met Milarepa. Out of appreciation, Milarepa accepted him as his disciple and gave him the complete oral instructions, and by deep meditation an extraordinary realization was born in his mind. He composed a treatise which brought together the stages of the oral tradition and Milarepa’s instructions on Mahamudra. This merging of the oral and Mahamudra traditions into one stream came to be known as Dagpo Kagyu. He died in 1153 at the age of seventy four.