Jampa Khawoche (byams pa kha bo che), also known as Minyak Lodro Drakpa (mi nyag blo gros grags pa), was born in the eastern region of Minyak (mi nyag) some time in the early fourteenth century.
According to tradition, he visited Jonang Monastery (jo nang dgon) in Tsang, and as he was circumambulating the great stupa there, he had a vision of Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen (dol po pa shes rab rgyal mtshan, 1292-1361) seated in the midst of a mass of light rays. He was overcome with faith and immediately offered a bolt of silk, two ounces of gold, and a set of monk’s robes to Dolpopa.
He stayed at Jonang and studied with Dolpopa for the next six years, receiving many teachings of exoteric and esoteric Buddhism. Finally, Dolpopa said to him, “Return to Kham and benefit the doctrine.” Jampa Khawoche prostrated and replied, “I cannot go. I cannot bear to be apart from you, sublime spiritual father.”
Dolpopa then gave him a conch shell and a copy of one of his literary masterpieces, the Fourth Council (bka' bsdu bzhi pa), telling him to teach from it and gave a prophecy of what would occur when he returned home to Kham.
In the prophecy Dolpopa predicted that he would meet a blue woman (an emanation of the guardian goddess Pelden Lhamo) who would offer him a donkey, and that he should load the book onto the donkey’s back and follow wherever it went. When the donkey lay down to sleep, Jampa Khawoche should blow the conch shell Dolpopa had given him, pray to Dolpopa, and establish a monastery at that spot.
Unable to refuse Dolpopa’s command, Jampa Khawoche returned to eastern Tibet and, when events occurred exactly according to his teacher’s prophecy, founded the monastery of Ngedongyi Chozhi Gonde (nges don gyi chos gzhi dgon sde).
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Ngag dbang blo gros grags pa. 1992. Dpal ldan jo nang pa'i chos 'byung rgyal ba'i chos tshul gsal byed zla ba'i sgron me. Koko Nor: Krung go'i bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang, 1992, pp. 103–104.