A Daka is a male angel and a Dakini is a female Angel in Tibetan. Often Tibetan Lamas and monks will call female human Tibetan Buddhist practitioners Dakinis as well, especially in the Nyingma tradition but likely also other traditions as well. There are Gelukpas like the Dalai Lama and Kagyus from Marpa and Mila Repa and Sakyas which in some ways are similar to Gelukpas in some ways because the Sakyas and Gelukpas are the most formally educated Sects whereas the kagyus and Nyingmas are more likely to spend years in Caves learning to levitate and other things like that learning to do supernatural things. It's all what people are interested in doing with their lives.
Remember, the Nyingma and Kagyu Traditions go back to Marpa and Milarepa to the 11th century and the Nyingma traditions go back to Padmasambhava in likely the time of King Trisondetsun of Tibet. So, since he reigned from 755 to 794 AD this is how far back the Nyingma traditions go before most people ever learned to read on earth any language.
In the old ways of imparting wisdom it was done aura to aura rather than intellectually. It was like putting whole encyclopedias of knowledge into the auras of your most able students so when they ripened with bodhichita. (kindness and right mindful actions) then they would have the use of great power and wisdom of helping their students to enlightenment too.
There is a kindness and a power here that I haven't seen anywhere in people's lives around the world except through Grace. Grace isn't limited to Christianity by the way it is in all religions and philosophies I have studied worldwide.
Trisong Detsen (Tibetan: ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན, Wylie: khri srong lde btsan, Lhasa dialect: [ʈʂʰisoŋ tetsɛ̃]) was the son of Me Agtsom, the 38th emperor of Tibet. He ruled from AD 755 until 797 or 804.
Father: Me Agtsom
Reign: 755–794
Mother: sna-nam-bza' mang-po-rje bzhi-sting
Born: 742
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