The Zamtsa Serti incarnation line was initiated when the Second Zamtsa Sertri, Lobzang Jigme Namkha was identified as the reincarnation of Fifty-fifth Ganden Tripa, Trichen Ngawang Namkha Zangpo in the eighteenth century. The seat of this tulku line is at Labrang Tashikyil, an important Geluk monastery in Amdo.
Biographies
The Fifty-Fifth Ganden Tripa, Ngawang Namkha Zangpo
b.1690? - d.1750/1749
Ngawang Namkha Zangpo served as the Fifty-fifth Ganden Tripa from 1746 to 1750, when he was deposed after refusing to perform hostile tantric rites in the service of one of the sons of the recently deceased King of Tibet, Polhane. He studied in the colleges of Drepung Gomang and Gyuto where he later served as abbot. He was also abbot of Ganden Shartse College from where he ascended to the golden throne of Ganden. His reincarnations are known as the Zamtsa Sertri.
