Penor Rinpoche

Kyabje (His Holiness)
3rd Drubwang Padma Norbu
Rinpoche
Kyabje (His Holiness) 3rd Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche
	Penor Rinpoche at Namdroling, 1981
Title	Kyabje, 11th Throne-Holder of Palyul Lineage, The 3rd Padma Norbu, The 3rd Supreme Head of Nyingma Tradition
Personal
Born	Tenzin; January 30, 1933; Powo, Kham, Tibet
Died	March 27, 2009 (aged 77); Namdroling Monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysuru, India
Religion	Tibetan Buddhism
Nationality	Tibetan
Parents	Sonam Gyurmed (father); Dzomkyid (mother);
School	Nyingma
Lineage	Palyul
Other names	Penor, Thubten Legshed Chokyi Drayang, Do-ngag Shedrub Tenzin Chog-lei Namgyal
Dharma names	འཇིགས་མེད་ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ཆོས་ཀྱིས་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ། 'Jigs-med-thub-bstan-bshad-sgrub-chos-kyi-sgra-dbyangs-dpal-bzang-po
Organization
Temple	Padmasambhava Buddhist Vihara, the "Golden Temple of Namdroling Monastery"
Institute	Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery Institute
Founder of	Namdroling Monastery, Ngagyur Tsogyal Shedrupling Nunnery, Tsepal Topkyed Day Care Medical Center, Palyul Changchub Dargyeling, The Palyul Retreat Centre, Thubten Lekshey Ling
Senior posting
Teacher	5th Dzogchen Rinpoche Thubtan Choskyi Dorje, Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang, Thubten Chokyi Dawa, Karma Thegchog Nyingpo
Predecessor	Karma Thegchog Nyingpo
Successor	Karma Kuchen, 12th Throne-Holder of Palyul Lineage
Reincarnation	Drubwang Palchen Düpa
	Students Minling Khenchen Rinpoche, Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo;
Ordination	Gelong (monk), 1952, by Khenpo Chogtrul Chokyi Dawa; Supreme Head of Nyingma, 1993, by the 14th Dalai Lama
Website	http://www.palyul.org/, http://www.namdroling.net/

Kyabjé 3rd Drubwang Padma Norbu, Lekshe Chokyi Drayang widely known as Penor Rinpoche (Tibetan: པདྨ་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: pad ma nor bu, 30 Jan 1933 – 27 Mar 2009), is the 11th throneholder of the Palyul Lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, and the 3rd Drubwang Padma Norbu.^[1] He is recognized as the incarnation of Vimalamitra. By the age of 17, he had received the corpus of Payul lineage teachings including Dzogchen teachings,^[1] and became a renowned Dzogchen master. He began his escape from Tibet in 1959 with 300 people, and only 30 arrived in India. While working alongside laborers, He rebuilt Palyul Monastery in Karnataka, India, where more than 5,000 Nyingma school monks and nuns study.

He was one of a very few teachers left from his generation who received all his traditional training in Tibet under the guidance of fully enlightened masters.^{[citation needed]} His rebuilding of the Palyul tradition in exile has grown to include monasteries, nunneries, and retreat centers in Tibet, India, and Nepal with numerous western projects such as the Palyul Retreat Center in New Youk state. ^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c Sonam Tsering Ngulphu, "3rd Penor, Lekshe Chokyi Drayang", Treasury of Lives, August 2023
^ "Short Biography of His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche". Archived from the original on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^ Cite error: The named reference Five was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Treasury-1] Sonam Tsering Ngulphu, "3rd Penor, Lekshe Chokyi Drayang", Treasury of Lives, August 2023

[2] "Short Biography of His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche". Archived from the original on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2021.

[Five-3] Cite error: The named reference Five was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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