several information on its foundation and history is given in Sørensen & Hazod 2005 (pp. 102f. n. 268)
est. by སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ། (d. 649/650) as support (Stütze)/supportive monastery of ཁྲ་འབྲུག་བྱམས་པ་མི་འགྱུར་གྱི་གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་། in the dynastic period Uebach 1987 (p. 91) Sørensen & Hazod 2005 (pp. 29, 102 n. 268)
allegedly erected by སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ། (d. 649/650) Sørensen & Hazod 2005 (p. 102 n. 268)
constructed during the reign of ཁྲི་ལྡེ་སྲོང་བཙན། at the end of the 8th or in the early 9th century (between 804-817) Sørensen & Hazod 2005 (pp. 222f., 309, 106 n. 271, 102 n. 268)
three different queens are connected with its foundation, cf. Sørensen & Hazod 2005 (p. 102 n. 268)
founded by ཁྲི་སྲོང།'s mother ནང་ཚུལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་རྒྱལ་མོ། (acc. to མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་དབང་པོ) Ferrari 1958 (pp. 12f., 51) dgon sde khag ngo sprod [2007] (p. 134) Dowman 1988 (p. 194)
founded by དཔལ་གྱི་ངང་ཚུལ།, the wife of ཁྲི་རལ་པ་ཅན། (sic!) lho kha chos 'byung [2005] (p. 40)