Sublime

The retreat was to be under the direction of the Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, a close dharma brother of Trungpa Rinpoche and one of the foremost teachers in the Kagyü lineage.

Naropa consolidated Tilopa’s teachings in the well-known six yogas of Naropa (see chapter 11), a particularly important and distinctive part of the Kagyü heritage.

Naropa transmitted his lineage to Marpa (1012–1096), a Tibetan householder who had come to India in search of the dharma. Naropa

Standing in the background is the great fourteenth-century Nyingma scholar and yogin Longchenpa, who, for the first time, brought together the various doctrines and practices of the Ancient School into one grand and comprehensive synthesis.

Teishin,

Then we have gurus in the tradition of Patrul Rinpoche and present-day Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, who never belonged to a legendary monastery and who have no entourage or patrons.

It sounds as if you are referring to Trungpa Rinpoche.

Marpa became the Tibetan founder of the Kagyü