Career
He was the student of Rongtön (Rongtön Shéja Künrik, Wylie: rong ston shes bya kun rig). He founded the Thuptén Namgyél Monastery in Tanag (Wylie: rta nag thub bstan rnam rgyal gling), which is just north of Shigatse. He was a critic of Je Tsongkhapa.
Gorampa insinuated Tsongkhapa conversed with a demon instead of Manjusri:
"Even as serious a scholar as Go rams pa cannot resist suggesting, for example, that Tsong kha pa"s supposed conversations with Manjusri may have been a dialogue with a demon instead."
Gorampa accuses Tsongkhapa of being seized by demons and spreading demonic words:.