Dagpo Rimpoche Losang Jamphel Jhampa Gyamtshog, born in 1931 in Southeast Tibet, was recognised by H.H. the 13th Dalaï Lama as a tulku or reincarnated lama. Head of several monastic communities in Tibet and doctor of Buddhist philosophy, he taught Tibetan language and civilisation for 30 years at the School of Oriental Studies in Paris. Invited all over the world, he gives lectures in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore.

Dagpo Rinpoche's previous incarnations are said to include the main spiritual guide of the Indian sage Atisha, the great Serlingpa of Indonesia and the great 11th-century translator Marpa Lotsawa, one of the pioneers of the Kagyu School of Buddhism in Tibet, as well as several abbots.