The 5th Dalai Lama asked grub dbang rdzogs chen, rab ’byams pa bstan pa’I rgyal mtshen and rig ‘dzin nyi ma grags pa to establish a monastery by each. Thus, rab ’byams pa bstan pa’I rgyal mtshen founded zhe chen ao rgyan chos rdzong in 1698. The second reincarnation rig ’dzin dpal ’byor rgya mtsho relocated the center to a nearby place and named it zhe chen bstan gnyis dar rgyas gling, and there the number of great lineage holders increased. After the Chinese occupation of Tibet, by the grace of the supreme luminary of the teachings of rnying ma school dil mgo’i mkhyen brtse rin po che, the 7thrab ’byams ’gyur med kun bzang bshad sgrub chos kyi seng ge theg mchog bstan pa’i rgyal mtshan newly founded the center and its relics in 1980. The center put effort on the study and teaching of the teachings of Buddha and its continuity and propagation. Today monks from Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and others places, numbering around 518, continue the teaching of Buddha in general and rnying ma school in particular undeclined.