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The tradition names an elder and a younger Yuthok Yönten Gönpo, the second in the twelfth century, as the source of the Four Tantras as they are read today. In the seventeenth century Desi Sangye Gyatso wrote the Blue Beryl, commissioned the seventy-nine medical paintings and founded the college at Chakpori. In 1916 the Men-Tsee-Khang was founded in Lhasa, and in 1961 refounded in Dharamsala. Sowa Rigpa is practised across the Himalaya and Mongolia, and was recognised as a system of medicine by India in 2010.
The pages here will tell that history and present the lineages and institutions that carry the science today.