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| Namdroling Monastery | |
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Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་། Wylie transliteration: Theg-mchog-rnam-grol-bshad-sgrub-dar-rgyas-gling | |
 Entrance gate of the Namdroling | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
| Sect | Nyingma |
| Festivals | Losar, Drubchen, bKa-ma'i Drubchod, Sagadawa, Mipham Anniversary, Longchen Anniversary, Gutor etc; |
| Leadership | Karma Kuchen,[1] 12th Throneholder of Palyul Lineage |
| Location | |
| Location | Namdroling, Bylakuppe, Mysore, Karnataka  India |
| Geographic coordinates | 12°25′49.8″N 75°58′2.53″E / 12.430500°N 75.9673694°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Kyabje Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche, also known as Penor Rinpoche |
The Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargye Ling(བོད་ཡིག ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།) (Wylie: theg mchog rnam grol bshad sgrub dar rgyas gling), informally known as Namdroling Monastery (or ನಮ್ಡ್ರೋಲಿಂಗ್ ವಿಹಾರ, Namdroling Vihara) is the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. Located in Bylakuppe, part of the Mysuru district of the state of Karnataka, the monastery is home to a sangha community of more than five thousand monks and nuns and qualified teachers, a junior high school named Yeshe Wodsal Sherab Raldri Ling, a Buddhist philosophy college or shedra for both monks and nuns, a home for the elderly, and a hospital.