Ngamring

Ngamring lies in western Tsang, where its monastery Chöde served as a seat of the rulers of northern Lhatö. Founded in 1225 with the invitation of the Sakya master Shakya Sengé, the monastery became a centre of Buddhist learning. Its pupils included Khedrup Gelek Pelzang, who studied under the scholar Bodong Chokle Namgyal. Ngamring Chöde was connected with several Tibetan religious traditions over its history, including Sakya and Jonang. In the seventeenth century it was converted to the Gelug school. Its scholars and teachers linked the local ruling house to the religious debates of central Tibet, while the monastery remained a prominent institution in the highland country north of the Yarlung Tsangpo.