Khedrup Khungpo Naljor

• 1140: he was born in Nyemo into the Khungpo family. His father’s name was Tagkhye and his mother’s name was Tashi Kyi.

• Originally he was Bonpo but he converted to Buddhism. He became learned in the teachings of the Nyingma sect.

• He visited India and Nepal where he received teachings on sutra and tantra and extensive religious instruction from one hundred and fifty scholars.

• He became proficient in the tradition originating from Niguma, the consort of Naropa, and then returned to Tibet.

• In Shang-Shang, in the region of Shang, he founded a huge monastery which contributed to the teaching of the Kagyu lineage and became renowned as the Shangpa Kagyu.

• It is said that he had eighty thousand disciples in all, and that he reached the age of one hundred and fifty.