Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Baiyü County, Sichuan, China
Palyul Monastery (Tibetan : དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཆོས་གླིང་། , Wylie : dpal yul rnam rgyal byang chub chos gling ), also known as Palyul Namgyal Jangchub Choling Monastery and sometimes romanized as Pelyul Monastery , is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism . It was founded in 1665 by Rigzin Kunzang Sherab in Pelyul in Baiyü County , Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China's Sichuan province, on the eastern edge of Tibet in Kham . The monastery is the seat of the Nam Chö Terma of Terton Mingyur Dorje . Drubwang Padma Norbu (Penor Rinpoche) was the 11th throneholder of the Palyul lineage. Upon his mahaparinirvana in March, 2009, Karma Kuchen Rinpoche became the 12th throneholder.
Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe , India , is where the current throneholder to the Palyul lineage has resided since exile from Tibet during Chinese annexation .
Dzogchen Lineage of Palyul
Throneholders
Rigzin Kunzang Sherab (rig 'dzin kun bzang shes rab, 1636–1398). He built "a temple with a reliquary stupa inside to preserve Mingyur Dorje ’s relics, and had a statue of him made."[2]
Padma Lhundrub Gyatso
1st Drubwang Padma Norbu
Karma Tashi
Karma Lhawang and Karma Dondam
Gyurme Nyedon Tanzin
Padma Do-ngag Tanzin
Do-ngag Chökyi Nyima
2nd Drubwang Padma Norbu (Padma Kunzang Tanzin Norbu, also known as Rig'dzin dpal chen 'dus pa)
Karma Thegchog Nyingpo
3rd Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche (Jigme Thubten Shedrub Chokyi Drayang Palzangpo, Wylie: 'jigs med thub bstan bshad sgrub chos kyi sgra dbyangs dpal bzang po)
Karma Kuchen (Thubtan Tshultrim Norbu Odsal Thrinlas Kunkhyab Palzangpo)
Drubwang Migyur Dechen Garwang Zilnon Dorje Palzangpo
Other people
Jampal Dorje (19th and 20th centuries) [3]
Notes
References
External links
Buddhist monasteries in Sichuan
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