Tumton Lodro Drakpa

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Tumton Lodro Drakpa

གཏུམ་སྟོན་བློ་གྲོས་གྲགས་པ་

1106 – 1166

Tumton Lodro Drakpa was the founder, in 1153, of Nartang Monastery, one of the earliest Kadam monasteries in Tibet. He served as the first abbot for fourteen years, until 1166.

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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