The Treasury of Lives

The Garchen incarnation line is based at Gar Gon Jangchub Choling Monastery in Nangchen. There is some confusion about the origin of the line. It either began in the thirteenth century when the First Garchen, Ngawang Dondrub, was identified as the reincarnation of the twelfth century Drigung master Gar Dampa Shakya Pel, or these two men were in fact the same, and Gar Dampa is the First Garchen.