About 400 years ago at that place was just a small village Gumba, while Kathog Rimpoche was passing through Marpha Village and local people requested him to build a monastery here, he agreed and asked to provide a middle child from each family to become a monk, at that time statues of Amitabha Buddha, Avalokiteshvara and Guru Padmasambhava were established here and since then they recieve a daily worship. In course of time the monastery has grown and developed, accumulated rare scriptures, and oral tradition of transmission still remains intact. Reincarnated masters (Tulku) of this lineage include Jigme Lingpa, Lhatsün Namkha Jigme, and Tulku Lodro Singey being the present one.