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Ngadag Nyangral Nyima Ozer, 1124/36-1192/1204, (mnga' bdag nyang/myang ral nyi ma 'od zer) was born in 1124 (an alternate date of 1136 has occasionally been suggested in western sources, but is almost certainly mistaken) in Lhodrag. His father was Nyangton Chokyi Khorlo (nyang/myang ston chos kyi 'khor lo, d. ca. 1142), who traced his ancestry back to at least the eighth century when members of the Nyang clan populated the inner circles of several emperors. A lay tantrika who claimed to maintain his family's tantric transmission lineage under his secret initiatory name of Dorje Wangchug Tsel (rdo rje dbang phyug rtsal), he appears to have gathered a small retinue of disciples to the south of Tibet's first monastery, Samye (bsam yas). Nyangral's mother was named Jomo Yeshe Dron (jo mo ye shes gron), and her initiatory name was either Pema Dechen Tsal (padma bde chen rtsal) or Pema Dewa Tsel (padma bde ba rtsal), the latter being a variant of an epithet of Hayagriva (rta mgrin), the fierce deity of the Padma buddha family who would become the focus of Nyangral's meditation throughout his younger years.

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