Dgon byang ao rgyan mdo sngags chos ’khor gling was founded during 19th century by the sixth rig ’dzin pad ma chos ’phel at gtingskyes, in the central part of Tibet. In India, it was established in the year 1980 at Gangtok, by the disciple of the previous reincarnation mtha’ bral rdorje. In 1981, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has consecrated and supplicated for the center. Skyabs rje rdo grub rin po che has given the name ao rgyan mdos ngags chos ling to the center.
In 1995 the byang dgon study center was established. As per the infallible prophecy of skyabs rje ’jigs bral ye shes rdoje, the present meditation center and residence of the study center and hall were established during the life time of byang dgon mchog sprul ao rgyan ’jigs med ’phrin las kun khyab mchog. The three cycles of the Northern Terma and treatises of the two kun mkhyen rong klongs are being studied by around 110 monks from Tibet, ’bras ljong, Mon, Bhutan and Nepal.