The Treasury of Lives

秋吉林巴是十九世纪掘藏数量最多的伏藏师之一。他以康区为主要活动区域，与蒋贡康楚以及蒋扬钦哲旺波关系亲密，三人合称“钦贡秋三尊”。在他诸多的伏藏发现中，以《心修遍除诸障》、《甚深七法》以及《本智精华道次第》最为著名，蒋贡康楚为后者写了一本非常有名的论释。秋吉林巴在康区发现了多处圣地，这些圣地对康区神圣地理的形成有很大的影响。他建立了则吉寺以及涅殿寺，分别成为他自己的两个转世体系吉喇与涅殿的驻锡寺院。

Kunzang Dechen was a Tibetan practitioner who married Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, with whom she left Tibet for Nepal in the late 1950s. She developed the Asura Cave hermitage in Pharphing where she lived most of her later years. She was the mother of Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Chokling Rinpoche.

Longsel Nyingpo was a major treasure revealer in the seventeenth century. His treasures, along with those of his teacher, Dudul Dorje, are central to the tradition of Katok Monastery, which he was responsible for reviving from decline. 

Padmasambhava, or Pema Jungne ("the Lotus Born") in Tibetan, is one of the most revered figures in Tibetan Buddhism, thanks in large part to his early role in converting the local gods and demons of the Tibetan landscape to Buddhism. Also known as Guru Rinpoche, he is particularly important to followers of the Nyingma School, who sometimes refer to him as "the second buddha." As such, he has acted through visions and revealed texts as the inspirational source for many of the Nyingma traditions's treasure revelations.

Tulku Urgyen was considered one the greatest Dzogchen and Mahāmudrā meditation teachers of the twentieth century, and was the premier holder of the revelations of Chokgyur Lingpa, his great-grandfather. He founded Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling, one of the main Tibetan Buddhist exile monasteries in Kathmandu, where he welcomed scores of Western students alongside many Tibetans. A student and close colleague of the Sixteenth Karmapa, his main teacher was his uncle, Samten Gyatso. He was the father to four contemporary teachers: Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsike Chokling Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and Mingyur Rinpoche.