The Gungri Khandro is a female Geluk tulku line based at Gangya Drakkar Gon in Amdo.
Biographies
The Fifth Gungri Khandro, Rigdzin Pelmo
b.1814 - d.1891
The First Gungru Khandro, Sonam Gyen
17th cent.
Lhatse Ponmo Sonam, the First Gungru Khandro, was a seventeenth-century Geluk female practitioner who stayed in many places in Amdo, including caves at Gengya, from which she received the name of Gengyai Khandroma. The historical records disagree as to whether Lhatse Ponmo Sonam is the same woman as Lobzang Chodron, the name under which she received her incarnation title. While some resources consider them to have been separate individuals and the names of the First and Second Gungru Khandro, The Treasury of Lives treats the two names as referring to the same person.
Little is known about the life of the Second Gungru Khandro, Lobzang Drolma. She was an artist and a meditator in Amdo and spent a part of her life in Gengya Drakkar Monastery in Amdo. She is said to have been recognized as the reincarnation of the First Gungru Khandro, Lobzang Chodron, by the Ganden Podrang government in Lhasa.