Aro gZa’ Druk-tsal Shèldrakma

Painted by David S. Herrerías for ‘Born in Full Flight’ — the illustrated history of the Aro gTér Tradition. There are to be one hundred and eleven illustrations including maps.

The text will be prepared by the Aro gTér historian Ngakpa 'ö-Dzin Tridral — with Ngakpa Nor'dzin Pamo.

Aro gZa’ Druk-tsal Shèldrakma (A ro gZa’ rTsal shel brag ma / ཨ་རོ་གཟའ་བྲུག་རྩལ་ཤེལ་བྲག་མ་) was a female disciple of Guru Rinpoche and Yeshé Tsogyel. She was one of the 25 direct disciples of Yeshé Tsogyel.

Aro gZa’ Druk-tsal Shèldrakma was the incarnation of Mahasiddha Manibhadra (grub chen ma ni bha dra / གྲུབ་ཆེན་མ་ཎི་བྷ་དྲཱ། / 8th Century AD) whose sobriquet was ‘the perfect housewife’.

Aro gZa’ Druk-tsal Shèldrakma was the previous incarnation of ‘a-Shül Pema Legden — who took incarnation as gTértön Aro Yeshé, the son of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.