Chonyi Drolma is from Sangruma, in Darlag County, Golok. At around the age of two her father was wounded in a gun shooting accident, and after a long period of pain and suffering he passed away. Twenty days after, her mother was stricken by heart disease and became crazy, she wandered around aimlessly and went to a very high and cold place where she suffered from serious frostbite over her whole body. After this, the parts of her body that were frostbitten began to smell like a corpse. She was unable to go outside her room to the toilet, she lived this way for a few years. She had nobody except her young daughter and one young son. When she died she was full of suffering and was in tears. If one were to see this family of mother, son, and daughter it would not be possible to hold back one's tears. After their mother's death, these two orphans had nobody to take care of them and they had to fend for themselves, living as poor beggars. After hearing of this situation, Khentrul Kunzang Gyaltsen went to find these two and took them to this school.