[1][2][3][4] She was the daughter of Chögyal Terdag Lingpa (Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྒྱྱལ་གཏེར་བདག་གླླིང་པ་ chos rgyal gter bdag gling pa), the founder of Mindrolling Monastery.
[6] She received the entire transmissions of Thug Je Chenpo De Sheg Kun Du from Lochen Dharmashri and mastered the Tsa-lung and Thigle practices at the age of fourteen.
[2] In 1717, when the Mongols invaded Tibet, she escaped to Sikkim where she taught the dharma for two years and founded the Pema Yangtse monastery.
[2] She also gave empowerments, oral transmissions, and explanations of the collected works of Chögyal Terdag Lingpa and the Nyingthig Yabzhi to over 270 disciples, as well as establishing Samten Tse nunnery near Mindrolling .
[7] Alison Melnick Dyer has published articles about Mingyur Paldron,[8][9] and is currently writing a book about her life and influence.