He also received teachings and initiations from other masters at Sakya, such as the Sakya throne-holder of the Khon (‘khon) family, Daknyi Chenpo Sangpo Pel (bdag nyid chen po bzang po dpal, 1262-1324). From Kunpang Drakpa Gyeltsen (kun spangs grags pa rgyal mtshan, d.u.) he again received the Vimalaprabhā commentary on the Kālacakra Tantra. From Sengge Pel (seng ge dpal, d.u.) of the Sharpa family of Sakya, he received the teachings of epistemology, and from that master’s brother, Kunga Sonam (kun dga’ bsod nams, d.u.), he received the teachings of the Lamdre (lam ‘bras) and the textual transmission of many tantras of the Hevajra cycle.
In 1314 Dolpopa traveled to many of the great monasteries of Tsang and central Tibet and received the title “Omniscient” (kun mkhyen) because of his mastery of scriptures such as the one-hundred-thousand-line sutra on the perfection of wisdom. He also received full monastic ordination from the abbot Sonam Drakpa (mkhan chen bsod nams grags pa, d.u.) of Cholung Monastery (chos lung dgon) and made the vow to never eat slaughtered meat for the rest of his life. During this journey he received many teachings of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions, and the instructions of Chod and Zhije.
In the year 1321, when he was twenty-nine years old, Dolpopa ascended to the monastic seat (gdan sa) of Sakya Monastery. During the same year he visited Jonang Monastery (jo nang dgon) for the first time and was deeply impressed by the tradition of intense meditation emphasized there. Then he traveled to U, where he had extensive conversations with the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (karma pa rang byung rdo rje, 1284-1339), at the great Karma Kagyu monastery of Tsurpu (mtshur phu). The Karmapa significantly prophesied that Dolpopa would quickly become even more expert in the view and practice.
In 1322 Dolpopa left Sakya and went to Jonang Monastery, where he received from the master Khetsun Yonten Gyatso (yon tan rgya mtsho, 1260-1327) the complete transmission of the Kālacakra Tantra, the Bodhisattva Trilogy, and the Kālacakra completion-stage practices of the six-branch yoga. Then he entered a meditation retreat at the Jonang hermitage of Khacho Deden (mkha’ spyod bde ldan). After this retreat, Yonten Gyatso convinced Dolpopa to teach in the assembly at Jonang, and also taught him many more systems of esoteric knowledge, such as Lamdre, the Five Stages (rim lnga) of the Guhyasamāja and the Cakrasaṃvara, Zhije and Chod. Dolpopa then visited Sakya at the invitation of Tishri Kunga Gyeltsen (ti shrI kun dga’ rgyal mtshan, 1310-1358) of the Khon family, and offered him the Kālacakra initiation.