Palyul Monastery (), also known as Palyul Namgyal Jangchub Choling Monastery and sometimes romanized as Pelyul Monastery, is one of the "Six Mother Monasteries" of the

Nyingma Nyingma (literally 'old school') is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also often referred to as ''Ngangyur'' (, ), "order of the ancient translations". The Nyingma school is founded on the first lineages and transl ...

tradition of

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. It was founded in 1665 by Rigzin

Kunzang Sherab Kunzang (1445 – c. 1479), in full Kuntu Zangpo (), was a prince of the Rinpungpa Dynasty that wielded power in Tsang (West Central Tibet). He was the second son of Norzang, the founder of the power of the family, and the Phagmodrupa princess Ye ...

in Dege, on the eastern edge of

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, a town in today's

Baiyü County Baiyü County ( or Pelyül) () is a county in far western Sichuan, China on the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Administrative divisions * Jianshe Town (� ...

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in China's

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province. The monastery is the seat of the Nam Chö Terma of Terton Migyur Dorje. Drubwang Padma Norbu (Penor Rinpoche) was the 11th throneholder of the Palyul lineage. Upon his

mahaparinirvana In Buddhism, ''parinirvana'' (Sanskrit: '; Pali: ') is commonly used to refer to nirvana-after-death, which occurs upon the death of someone who has attained ''nirvana'' during their lifetime. It implies a release from '' '', karma and rebirth a ...

in March, 2009, Karma Kuchen Rinpoche became the 12th throneholder.

Namdroling Monastery The Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery (or Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargye Ling)(བོད་ཡིག ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།) ( Wylie: ''theg ...

Bylakuppe Bylakuppe is an area in Karnataka which is home to the Indian town Bylakuppe and several Tibetan settlements (there are several Tibetan settlements in India), established by Lugsum Samdupling (in 1961) and Dickyi Larsoe (in 1969). Bylakuppe ...

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, is where the current throneholder to the Palyul lineage has resided since exile from Tibet during Chinese annexation.

Dzogchen Lineage of Palyul

* Chöku Kuntuzangpo ( Dharmakaya

Samantabhadra Samantabhadra (Lit. "All Good", or "Always Auspicious") may refer to: * Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva), a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism associated with practice and meditation * ''Samantabhadra'' (Tibetan: ''Kuntu Zangpo''), the name of a Buddha, ...

) * Drugpa Dorjé Changchen (

Vajradhara Vajradhara (Sanskrit: वज्रधर. (Also, the name of Indra, because 'Vajra' means diamond, as well as the thunderbolt, anything hard more generally) Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང། rdo rje 'chang (Dorje Chang); zh, t=金� ...

) * Dorje Sempa (

Vajrasattva Vajrasattva ( sa, वज्रसत्त्व, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། ''Dorje Sempa'', short form is རྡོར་སེམས། ''Dorsem'', Монгол: Доржсэмбэ) is a bodhisattva in the Maha ...

) * Thugjé Chenpo Chenrezig ( Avalokitesvara) * Acarya

Garab Dorje Garab Dorje (c. 665) () was the first human to receive direct transmission teachings from Vajrasattva. Garab Dorje then became the teacher of the ''Ati Yoga'' (Tib. Dzogchen) or Great Perfection teachings according to Tibetan buddhist and Nyingma ...

(Prahevajra) * Jampal Shenyen ( Manjushrimitra) * Acarya Shiri Sing-ha * Yeshe Do (

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) * Padma Jyungnas (

Padmasambhava Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from India who may have taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According ...

) * Gelong Namkhai Nyingpo * Khandro

Yeshe Tsogyal Yeshe Tsogyal (c. 757 or 777 – 817 CE) , also known as "Victorious Ocean of Knowledge", " Knowledge Lake Empress" (, ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ), or by her Sanskrit name ''Jñānasāgara'' "Knowledge Ocean", or by her clan n ...

* Nanam Dorjé Dudzom * Lhase Mutri Tsanpo * Tertön Zangpo Dragpa * Trulku Rigzin Chenpo * Kunpang Dönyöd Gyaltsan * Gyudzin Sönam Chogzang * Drubthob Thangthong Gyalpo * Jangsem Kunga Nyima * Trulzhig Trayaketu * Tsenchen Trayavajra * Chöjé Bodhi Sing-ha * Trulku Tashi Gyamtso * Drubwang Tonpa Sengge * Trulku Chönyi Gyamtso * Terton Migyur Dorje * Khaschog

Karma Chagme The name Karma Chagme refers to a 17th-century Tibetan Buddhist (Vajrayāna) lama and to the tülku (reincarnate lama) lineage which he initiated. Including the first, seven Karma Chagme tülkus have been recognized. The Neydo Kagyu () sub-school ...

Throneholders

* Rigzin

(rig 'dzin kun bzang shes rab, 1636–1398). He built "a temple with a reliquary

stupa A stupa ( sa, स्तूप, lit=heap, ) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as ''śarīra'' – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation. In Buddhism, circumamb ...

inside to preserve Mingyur Dorje’s relics, and had a statue of him made." * 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)

Notes

References

*Namchö Ngondro, ''The Great Perfection Buddha in the Palm of the Hand.'' Gyaltrul Rinpoche, Yeshe Nyingpo, Ashland, Oregon, (c)1986 *Ven. Tsering Lama Jampal Zangpo, ''A Garland of Immortal Wish-fulfilling Trees: The Palyul Tradition of the Nyingmapa.'' Snow Lion, (c)1988 * Dorji Wangchuk (Universität Hamburg):
Das dPal-yul-KIoster in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Die Wiederbelebung einer klösterlichen Tradition der rNying-ma-Schule
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External links

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