Yuthog Yontan Gonpo

Yuthog Yontan Gonpo, also spelled Yutog Yontan Gonpo and known as the Elder, is a figure of Tibetan tradition presented as a high lama and physician of Tibet in the 8th century. The source article states that he is widely accepted to be a legend invented by the descendants of Yuthok Yontan Gonpo the Younger, so he stands as a mythical founding figure and not as a documented historical practitioner. Hagiographies claim that he lived 125 years. The entry records the figure as the tradition presents him while marking the attribution as legendary, and it gives no birth or death year because no source offers one.