The Treasury of Lives

The Rongwo Drubchen incarnation line dates to the seventeenth century when Ngawang Trinle Gyatso was identified as the reincarnation of Shar Kelden Gyatso, who was posthumously named the First Rongwo Drubchen. The seat is at Rongwo Monastery in Rebkong, Amdo, where the First Rongwo Drubchen established a Geluk college, and thus converted the institution from Sakya to Geluk. The line is also called the Shar Kelden incarnation line.