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Pheling he received empowerment, oral transmission and secret instructions from his
brother. With the guidance from his brother, he completed three long years of retreat
which ultimately made him a complete practitioner.

When his brother entered nirvana, he took-up absolute responsibility to perform all the
memorial services for his late brother. He then became the fourth abbot of Busa Wangdue
Goenpa, and had given his best service to the locality. In his later part of life, he
established a Dorji Lingpa seat at Drangla (Trongsa) and named it Namgay Choling. He
then took care of both the Busa Wangdue Goenpa and Drangla Namgay Choling Goenpa
till be entered nirvana.

5. Fifth Abbot - Khentse Shey-Nyen

He was born to Nedup Pelmo, a younger sister of Jetsun Tshulthtrim Pelbar, and was born
amazingly with number of auspicious signs. At four, he started his education, learning the
basic principles of alphabets and prayers from his uncle Tshulthrim Namgyel. It was
noted that while learning, he had never faced problem, spontaneously he learnt all the
basics in a very short duration.

At ten, he furthered his studies from his uncle and other eminent masters on higher sect
of Buddhist philosophies and literatures. And, after having had gained substantial volume
of Buddhist literature, he then received secret tantric teaching from his uncle which
included empowerment, oral transmission, secret instructions.
After his uncle Jetsun Tshulthrim Namgyel left for nirvana, he formally became the fifth
abbot of Busa Wangdue Goenpa In Drangla, seeing that the place at Namgyal Choling
Gonpa was so congested and inconvenient for extension, he shifted it to the present place
and named it as Drangla Samten Chokhor.

6. Sixth Abbot - Khedrup Choki Dorji

Khedrup Choki Dorji was born in Chendebji, a village under Trongsa Dzongkhag. Since
very young he learnt anything very easily. When
grown up he abandoned his ordinary life in the
village and left for Tibet following his aspiration to
master reading and writing. While in Tibet, he
received empowerments and teachings from many
Buddhist scholars. Upon coming home to his village
where water was very rare, he transformed into a
tiger and revealed a drinking water for the people.
There lived a demoness at the place where
Chendebji school stands today that was harming
the people. To suppress the demos, he built a
chorten (stupa) on the opposite site which stands
still today. He also established a cremation ground in the area for the welfare of the
people.

He then went to Trongsa. Upon reaching Bji Zam, a demon, that was harming the people,
tried to harm him with a number of evils magic. The lama subdued the demons and

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