Machig Labdron is a founder of the Cho Tradition of
Tibetan Buddhism. Machig Labdron was a renowned 11th-century
Tibetan tantric Buddhist practitioner, teacher, and
yogini who originated several Tibetan lineages of the
Vajrayana practice of Chod. Machig Labdron may have come from a
Bon family and, according to
Namkhai Norbu, developed Chod by combining native
shamanism with the
Dzogchen teaching.
Machig Labdron may have come from a Bon family and, according to Namkhai Norbu, developed .