Tarpaling is a monastery in the Nyang Valley in Tsang just south of Zhalu. Originally a retreat hermitage of Chel Lotsāwa, the name was given by his Kashmiri teacher Śākyaśrībhadra, who declared that his student should practice in a "land of liberation." It was expanded as a monastery by Tarpa Lotsāwa Nyima Gyeltsen in the fourteenth century, later becoming a Geluk institution in the mid seventeenth century. Buton Rinchen Drub studied Sanskrit poetry and grammar here for about four years with Tarpa Lotsāwa.