His Eminence Dagpo Rinpoche, also known as Bamchoe Rinpoche, was born in 1932 in the Kongpo region of southeastern Tibet. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama identified him as the reincarnation of the great master Dagpo Lama Rinpoche Jampel Lhundrup. When he was six years old he entered Bamchoe Monastery in the Dagpo region, where he learned to read and write and began to study the basics of Sutra and Tantra. At the age of thirteen he entered Dagpo Shedrup Ling Monastery to begin his studies of the five great treatises of Buddhist philosophy. Having remained there for eleven years, Rinpoche left for Lhasa and entered Gomang Dratsang, one of the four colleges of the great Monastic University of Drepung, to deepen his understanding of Buddhist philosophy, in particular on the basis of Jamyang Shepa's treatises used at Gomang Dratsang. For the duration of his stay at Gomang Dratsang (and later in exile, in India and Europe) he studied under the great Mongolian master, Geshe Ngawang Nyima, who later became Abbot of Gomang Dratsang in India. Being close to Lhasa, Rinpoche was also able to attend many teachings and receive a large number of oral transmissions from different masters. Today he is one of the few masters to hold the transmission lineages of such a great number of Buddha's teachings.

Rinpoche remained at Gomang Dratsang until the communist invasion of 1959, when he followed His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile in India. Less than a year after reaching India, he was invited to France to assist French Tibetologists in their research. For almost thirty years he taught Tibetan language and the history of Buddhism at the school of oriental studies (INALCO) affiliated with the Sorbonne in Paris. He continues to study and do research and has co-authored several books on Tibet and Buddhism. In 1978 he founded a Buddhist Dharma centre, Guepele Tchantchoup Ling, and began to teach Buddhism extensively. In 1995 the French government granted the centre Buddhist congregation status and it was re-named Ganden Ling Institute. Rinpoche has since founded centres elsewhere in France, as well as in Holland, Malaysia, and Indonesia, which he visits regularly to teach. He is also often invited to teach in other Dharma centres in Italy, Switzerland, Holland, France, India and Southeast Asia. He regularly travels to India to maintain contact with his teachers and his monasteries.