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Jangsem Dawa Gyeltsen was an important figure in the transmission lineages of the deities Hayagrīva and Avalokiteśvara, and in the dissemination of the Avalokiteśvara fasting ritual or nyung-ne. A great visionary who apparently became quite wealthy later in life, Dawa Gyeltsen is known principally as a meditator, healer, miracle worker, and teacher of bodhicitta. 

Khordong Choktrul Gyurme Dorje was a twentieth-century Nyingma lama in the Jangter, or Northern Treasures tradition. He was the son of Gonpo Wanggyel, the maternal grandson of Khordong Terchen Nuden Dorje, and the elder brother of Tulku Tsullo.

Pema Chodzom, like her sister Pema Chozin, was an eighteenth-century nun and patron of the Nyingma and Barawa Kagyu traditions. Her brother was Polane Sonam Tobgyel. Both sisters, students of Orgyen Ngawang Yeshe, lived at Karye Monastery in Mangyul during their adult years. There she and her sister sponsored and participated in the editing of the Rigdzin Tsewang Norbu (Waddell) edition of the Collected Nyingma Tantras.

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