I am reading “Tantric Practice in Nying-Ma.” by Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. In the book I found this:

“He originated this transmission, and five different types of beings - gods, dragons, demons, lichavis, and yakshas - passed on the transmission after receiving it from him.”

I needed to know more about this, so I asked a trusted source this question: Are dragons here nagas, and where do humans come in?

This was his answer:

There were five who met with Vajrapani on Mount Malaya.

  • a god named Yasasvi Varapal.

  • a naga known as King Taksaka.

  • a rakshasa ogre,  Matyaupayika,  who wrote it all down in melted beryl on golden plates and hid it in the sky.

  • a yaksha, or nature spirit, by the name of Ulamukha.

  • and Vimalakirti, a human awareness holder of the Lichavi clan.