The summer months at Drala Jong are busy with apprentice retreats with various brevet lamas as well as the lineage holders. One of these retreats saw the ordination of five students of Mé-tsal Wangmo and Ja'gyür Dorje, who were ordained by Khandro Déchen and Ngak'chang Rinpoche as ngakpas and ngakmas in the Aro gTér Lineage of the Nyingma Tradition of Himalayan Vajrayana.