The Dzogchen Ponlop are a Nyingma incarnation line based at Dzogchen monastery in Derge. Namkha Osel, who was posthumously identifiedf as the first in the line, assisted the First Dzogchen Drubwang Pema Rigdzin in establishing Dzogchen Monastery in 1684. The sixth incarnation, Jikdrel Tsewang Dorje, was the brother of the Sixteenth Karmapa.