What is "zangpo"

Zangpo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Karma Thubten Trinlay Gyurme Pal Zangpo, tulku in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism
• Rinchen Zangpo (958–1055), principal translator of Sanskrit Buddhist texts into Tibetan
• Rongzom Chokyi Zangpo, scholar of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism
• Takna Jigme Zangpo (born 1926), spent thirty-seven years in a Chinese prison in Lhasa, Tibet as a political prisoner