Pelmo

Pelmo Choding lies in the Porong country of southwestern Tibet and was a principal seat of the Bodong tradition. The scholar Bodong Chokle Namgyal taught here in the fifteenth century. Among his disciples was Chökyi Drönma, a princess who left married life to pursue religious practice and became the first of the Samding Dorje Phagmo incarnation lineage. Another woman associated with the monastery, Kuntu Sangmo, helped support the making of a celebrated printed life and songs of the yogi Milarepa.