Rahor Khenpo Tubten Rinpoche was a Nyingma lama who trained in religious craftsmanship at Rahor Monastery in Ganze before leaving Tibet in 1959 and settling in Rhode Island. Among his students was the American photographer and nun Marylin Silverstone. In the last two decades of his life, he supervised the rebuilding of Rahor.

Bhikkhu Aniruddha Mahathera was a twentieth-century Newar Theravāda Buddhist monk. Like his father, who was ordained under the name Dhammāloka, he played a significant role in spreading the Theravada tradition in Nepal. For most of his life he was the resident caretaker of the royal Theravada monastery in Lumbini, where he was a neighbor and friend of Chogye Trichen. Late in life he was honored with the title Patriarch of Nepal by the local Theravada community.

Dekyi Chodron was a nineteenth-century female practitioner. Her husband was the treasure revealer Chokgyur Lingpa, with whom she had two children, Konchok Peldron and Tsewang Drakpa. Her brother was Barwai Dorje. Tulku Urgyen was her great-grandson. 

Pemasel is said to have been a daughter of the Tibetan emperor Tri Songdetsen. According to legend she was brought back from death by Padmasambhava and given the teaching of the Heart Essence of the Ḍākinī, which was hidden as treasure and subsequently discovered as treasure by Pema Ledrel Tsel.

Gyelse Lekpa was Pema Ledreltsel's main direct disciple and, as such, a key figure in the early history of the Heart Essence of the Ḍākinī. He was himself a terton and a master to all the important figures of the second generation of the Heart Essence of the Ḍākinī lineage holders such as Rinchen Lingpa, the Third Karmapa, and Longchenpa.