The Treasury of Lives

The Drukchen incarnation line, also known as the Gyelwang Drukpa, originated in the fifteenth century when the Gya clan that controlled Ralung Monastery identified a boy of the clan, Kunga Peljor, as the reincarnation of the monastery's founder, Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje, and gave him the title of the Second Drukchen. The Third Drukchen was found outside of the Gya clan, which continued to control Ralung, and henceforth the line was based elsewhere.