The Yabzang Kagyu, one of the eight minor Kagyu lineages, was founded in the twelfth century by Pakmodrupa's disciple Zarawa Kelden Yeshe Sengge, whose student Yabzang Choje Chokyi Monlam systematized the teachings of Zarawa to form the basis of the tradition. Yabzang and Zara were important Yabzang Kagyu monasteries. Neither monasteries flourished for very long, and the Yabzang Kagyu teachings were absorbed into other traditions.