# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rinchen-zangpo
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:41:58.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rinchen-zangpo"
name: "Rinchen Zangpo"
slug: "rinchen-zangpo"
description: "Lochen Rinchen Zangpo, also known as Mahaguru, was a principal lotsawa or translator of Sanskrit Buddhist texts into Tibetan during the second diffusion of Buddhism in Tibet, variously called the New Translation School, New Mantra School or New Tantra Tradition School. He was a student of the famous Indian master, Atisha. His associates included (Locheng) Legpai Sherab. Zangpo's disciple Guge Kyithangpa Yeshepal wrote Zangpo's biography. He is said to have built over one hundred monasteries in Western Tibet, including the famous Tabo Monastery in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, Poo in Kinnaur and Rinchenling monastery in Nepal."
tagline: "Buddhist philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richen_Zangpo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "958"
deathDate: "1055"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.04
  momentum:             8.076923076923077
  historical:           10.95424933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BB%81%E6%AC%BD%E6%A1%91%E5%B8%83"
    title: "仁欽桑布"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BF%D0%BE"
    title: "Ринчен Зангпо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82-%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8B"
    title: "রিন-ছেন-ব্জাং-পো"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%99%E0%BD%B1%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%86%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%9F%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%94%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8B"
    title: "ལོ་ཙཱ་པ་རིན་ཆེན་བཟང་པོ་"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinchen_Sangpo"
    title: "Rinchen Sangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinchen_Zangpo"
    title: "Rinchen Zangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinchen_Zangpo"
    title: "Rinchen Zangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinchen_Zangpo"
    title: "Rinchen Zangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rincsen_Szangpo"
    title: "Rincsen Szangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinchen_Zangpo"
    title: "Rinchen Zangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochen_Rinchen_Zangpo"
    title: "Lochen Rinchen Zangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinchen_Zangpo"
    title: "Rinchen Zangpo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BF%D0%BE_(%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0)"
    title: "Ринчен Санпо (Лоцава)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967864"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump