Padmasambhava & Dakinis
The local name for Muktinath is Chumig Gyatsa (Hundred Waters).
The tradional caretakers of Muktinath-Chumig Gyatsa are the Tibetan Buddhist Chumig Gyatsa ('Muktinath') nuns with the head of the Gye Lhaki Dung as their abbot.
This family is popularly know as the Lama Domar family, an unbroken lineage of Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma lamas from Muktinath Valley, which has Chumig Gyatsa as its religious seat for centuries
The current abbot of Chumig Gyatsa is Muktinath Lama Wangyal.
For Tibetan Buddhists Muktinath-Chumig Gyatsa is a place of Dakinis, goddesses known as Sky Dancers.
It is of great importance for Buddhists that Chumig Gyatsa is one of the 24 Tantric places.
Padmasambhava plus the Mahasiddhas blessed it with their visit.
The famous Tibetan yogi Shabkar visted Muktinath in 1818 and stayed for several days to 'connect to the place', as his autobiography tells us.
The Padmasambhava Statue in Narsingh Gompa can be considered the most holy object together with the Chenrezig statue.
This is a very brief enumeration.
More information on Buddhist backgrounds - for instance on the natural fire - can be found in the pilgrimage guide "The Clear Mirror", written down by the late abbot of Chumig Gyatsa, Muktinath Lama Jampal Rabgyé Rinpoche.
