The Ga clan descends from Ga Yeshe Dargye (d.u.), a minister of Tri Relpachen. According to tradition, he was dispatched to Amdo to settle the areas around Ngawa, Zungchu and Dzoge with an army of ten thousand men. The Chone Kings, who ruled the semi-independent Chone Kingdom in eastern Amdo and later took the Chinese surname Yang, claim descent from Ga Yeshe Dargye.