The Treasury of Lives

Jonang Monastery is known as the birthplace of the Jonang tradition. The original foundation was laid by Kunpang Tukje Tsondru, traditionally said to have occurred in 1294. However, few people stayed at the monastery following Kunpang's time; the Jonang tradition as it is known today began in earnest nearby, at the Richo Chenmo, the Great Mountain Hermitage, where Dolpopa Sherab Gyeltsen, one of the most important Buddhist masters in Tibetan history and the most important figures connected with the Jonang, built a magnificent stūpa in 1333. This was the seat of Jonang activity until Tāranātha, who held the abbot chair from 1588 until at least the 1620s, built a new seat at Takden Puntsok Ling. Associated hermitages are Kyipuk Deden and Khacho Deden.

Longtang Drolma Lhakhang, in Denma, north of Derge, is said to have been first established in 638, one of King Songtsen Gampo's "demon taming temples," representing the supine demoness' right hand. The central image, a statue of Tārā, is said to have been installed by Princess Wenchung. It currently belongs to the Geluk tradition.

Langtang is a monastery in Penyul that was founded in  the 11th century by Langri Tangpa Dorje Sengge. Originally Kadam, it was later taken over by the Sakya tradition.

Nenang is a Karma Kagyu monastery in central Tibet that was founded by the First Zhamarpa, Drakpa Sengge in 1333. The monastery was given to the Fifth Pawo by the Fifth Dalai Lama after its confiscation from the Zhamar line in 1673 or 1674, and since then monastery has been the seat of the Pawo incarnation lineage. 

Talang, a monastery in Bhutan, was in existence from at least the eighteenth century when the Sixteenth Je Khenpo, Sherab Sengge, served as the Talang Lama there. 

Langna is a Sakya monastery in Kandze, Kham. It is said to have been founded in the early eighteenth century by the Tenth Chogye Trichen of Nalendra Monastery, Khyentse Rabten who passed through Kandze on his way to China. It takes its name from the ridge on which it sits, which is said to resemble an elephant's trunk. Some sources assert that it was first established by Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen in 1276.

Lang is an aristocratic clan whose genealogical account Potiseru (po ti bse ru) tells of the clan's mythic and divine origins. The Lang is descended from the Dra clan, one of the four great Tibetan ancestral lineages. Originally from a valley of the Drichu river in Kham, members were active in government from at least the time of Tibet's Yarlung dynasty.  Later, the clan would gain prominence in association with the Pakmodru noble house and their monastery Densatil. On the heels of waning Sakya power and the imminent fall of the Yuan dynasty, the Pakmodrupa under Jangchub Gyeltsen gained control of central Tibet in the mid-14th century. In 1618, the Pakmodrupa were defeated by the Tsangpa rulers.

Dingri Langkhor was founded by Padampa Sanggye in 1097. It was the site where he first taught Machik Labdron.

Yabzhi Langdun refers to the family members of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tubten Gyatso. The custom of granting Yabzhi status to families of the Dalai Lamas began during the time of the Seventh Dalai Lama, Kelzang Gyatso. The head of each Yabzhi, usually the Dalai Lama's father, was ennobled with a title and granted an estate. Yabzhi Langdun was named for Tubten Gyatso's hometown of Langdun in Dakpo, where his father, Kunga Rinchen, had been a farmer prior to his son's recognition.

Langling Monastery, in Naksho, Kham, was established in the fifteenth century by Zhangzhung Chowang Drakpa, a disciple of Tsongkhapa.

Emei Shan is one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains. It is located in southern Sichuan and is considered sacred to the bodhisattva Samantabhadra. A popular Chinese Buddhist pilgrimage destination, Tibetan Buddhist have also paid visits to the mountain, where there are over seventy Buddhist temples.

Amarbayasgalant, a Geluk monastery in Mongolia, was constructed in stages beginning in 1725, upon orders given in 1722 by Emperor Kangxi, who intended that the remains of Zanabazar be interred there. During the purges of the 1930s, the complex was damaged, although it fared better than other Mongolian monasteries. Beginning in the 1980s, the complex was restored.

Shadrang Puntsok Choling was founded in Rebkong in Amdo by Choje Dondrub Rinchen in 1346. Choje Dondrub Rinchen became prominent as the teacher of the young boy who would become Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa, founder of the Geluk tradition. Local accounts maintain that an adjacent hill to Shadrang monastery assumed the new name of Dornyin, an eponymous acronym of Dondrub Rinchengyi Nyinchok Ritro, after Dondrub Rinchen had meditated there.

Karma Rabten Ling, also known as Old Ralong, is a Karma Kagyu monastery located in Sikkim. It was founded in the eighteenth century. There are two monasteries at Ralong, one called Old Ralong and a new monastery called Ralong Palchen Choling that was built in 1995