The Treasury of Lives

Two men, Kunkhyen and Jamyang Chokyi Gyalpo. This painting is from a set of compositions that appears based on similar paintings identified as a Sakya Lamdre Lineage set. The secondary lineage that starts at the top left and proceeds down the right and left registers is possibly the Prajnaparamita Lineage beginning with Shakyamuni Buddha.

The Seventh Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso, along with a selection of the previous incarnations according to the Kadam Lekbam.

Prolific treasure revealers Namtrul Jigme Phuntsok and Khandro Tāre Lhamo are pictured beside Khenpo Jigme Puntsok, who gave them teachings and also authorized them as treasure revealers. 

An eighteenth century painting of The Fifth Dalai Lama pictured with major scenes from his life. 

Panchen Lama and Bakula Rinpoche photograped in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1986.

Lobzang Chokyi Gyeltsen, the first person to hold the title of Paṇchen Lama, is pictured in this eighteenth century painting, with Maitreya to the right enveloped in a rainbow. The upper left depicts Cakrasaṃvara and to the right is Paṇchen Lama's teacher Khedrub Sanggye Yeshe. The lower left shows Vaiśravaṇa, with Begtse Chen to the right.

Lama Gyurdrak and LP Lhalungpa photographed with Canadian High Commisioner James George and family, Delhi, late 1960's. 

Dudjom Rinpoche with lamas in Kalimpong, 

The Dalai Lamas are a Geluk incarnation line whose Ganden Podrang government ruled Tibet from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century. It was the Third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso, who was given the title of Dalai Lama by the leader of the Tumet Mongols, Altan Khan, which was posthumously applied to his previous incarnations, Gendun Drub and Gendun Gyatso. The Fourth Dalai Lama's Mongolian heritage cemented the Geluk-Mongol alliance, and with the Fifth Dalai Lama, the governance of Tibet by the Dalai Lamas began. It was the Fifth who also shifted the Dalai Lama’s residence from Ganden Podrang at Drepung Monastery to the newly constructed Potala Palace in Lhasa, henceforth the seat of the Tibetan government. The Thirteenth Dalai Lama declared independence from Beijing and ruled as head of a sovereign state. In 1950 Chinese forces occupied the country and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama fled to India, where he still lives in exile.

The Druk Lama Tripa is a Bhutanese Drukpa Kagyu incarnation line with a seat at Tango monastery in Bhutan. The line began when Mipam Wangpo was recognized in the early eighteenth century as the reincarnation of the Fourth Druk Desi, Tendzin Rabgye.

The Paṇchen Lama incarnation line began in the seventeenth century when Chokyi Gyeltsen, the sixteenth abbot of Tashilhunpo Monastery, was given the title by the Fifth Dalai Lama, who declared him an emanation of Amitābha. The Geluk scholar Tukwan Lobzang Chokyi Nyima's Crystal Mirror identifies numerous pre-incarnations including Padmasambhava, Atiśa, Gampopa, Go Khukpa Lhetse, Sakya Paṇḍita, and Yungton Dorje Pel. Two separate systems of enumeration exist for this lineage. According to the system of Tashilhunpo Monastery, the seat of the line, three previous lamas, identified as Chokyi Gyeltsen's previous incarnations, are identified as the First through Third Paṇchen Lamas: Khedrubje Gelek Pelzang, one of Tsongkhapa's primary disciples, Sonam Chokyi Langpo, and Wensapa Lobzang Dondrub. According to the system of Ganden Podrang, Chokyi Gyeltsen is considered the First Paṇchen and the line starts with him. For this reason Chokyi Gyeltsen is either listed as the First or the Fourth Paṇchen Lama. The Eleventh Paṇchen Lama, Gendun Chokyi Nyima, recognized by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in 1995, has not been seen in public since then, while another child, Gyeltsen Norbu was soon after installed as Eleventh Paṇchen Lama by the Chinese government.

The incarnation line of the Pelyul Choktrul—which means the Supreme Tulku of Pelyul Monastery—is based at the Nyingma monasteries of Pelyul and Dartang. The line began with Jamyang Sherab Chokyi Nangwa, who was recognized as the reincarnation of Karma Lhawang. Karma Lhawang was known as the First Dzongnang Lama, and thus Jamyang Sherab Chokyi Nangwa is also known as the Second Dzongnang Lama. Jampel Gyepai Dorje, Jamyang Sherab Chokyi Nangwa's reincarnation, was known as the Second Pelyul Choktrul and the Third Dzongnang. The Third Pelyul Choktrul / Fourth Dzongnang Lama, Jigme Chokyi Sengge, was born in 1966.

Dzamtang is a monastic city in southern Amdo. It is the common name for the three adjoining Jonang monasteries of Tsangwa, Choje and Tsechu. Of these,Tsangwa is the main monastery of the Dzamtang area and the home institution of the Jonang order. The oldest monastery of the complex is Choje, which was established in 1425 by Rinchen Pel.

Yonghegong, or Ganden Jinchak Ling, was built in 1694 as an imperial palace in Beijing. Following the Emperor Qianlong's 1744 edict, it was fully converted to a Geluk monastery by the Third Changkya, Rolpai Dorje. 

Lamayuru, a Drigung Kagyu monastery in Ladakh, is one of the region's oldest and largest monasteries. It may have been preexisted by a Bon monastery. According to Drigung history, the scholar Naropa caused a lake to dry up at the site, which was then turned into a monastery. Rinchen Zangpo, who is credited with founding 108 monasteries in the region, is also considered the founder of the oldest structure at Lamayuru. Famous for masked-dance festivals, it is currently home to around 150 monks.

The Young Lamas Home School was a school established by Freda Bedi in the early 1960's. British businessman Christopher Hills provided financial support for the school. Among its well known students were Chogyam Trungpa, Akong Tulku and Zopa Rinpoche. Initially located in Delhi, it was moved to Dalhousie.

Labsum Shedrub Ling, founded as the Lamaist Buddhist Monastery of America and also known as the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, is a non-sectarian monastery in Washington, New Jersey that was founded in 1958 by Geshe Wangyal. In 1984 a newly built temple was consecrated by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. It is considered the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the United States.

Men-tsee-khang, also known as Tibetan Medical and Astro-Science Institute, is the central Tibetan institute for research, study, and practice of traditional Tibetan Medicine and Astrology based in the Dharamsala town of Himachal Pradesh in India. After the Fourteenth Dalai Lama fled Tibet following the Chinese communist occupation, he re-established Men-tsee-khang in Dharamsala on March 23, 1961, to replicate the Mentsikhang in Lhasa that was founded by Tekhang Jampa Tubwang under the leadership of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in 1916. Initially operating as schools of medicine and astrology at Chopra House and Glenmore Cottage, they were merged as 1967 and then relocated to the present site on the Khara Danda Road in 1982.

According to the institutional mission, it aims to “improve the health and sanitation of the refugees in particular and the public in general and to establish dispensaries in order to provide accessible health care to all people.”

The Men-tsee-khang runs a college, a research and publication department, pharmacology and pharmaceuticals department, and branch clinics and centers across the world.

Lama Ling is a center in Kongpo for lay practitioners that was built in the 1940s by Dudjom Rinpoche. 

The Tsongkhapa Moscow Buddhist Center is a Geluk dharma center located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1996 by students of Geshe Jampa Trinle. It is one of the older Buddhist centers in Moscow.