Drubwang Padma Norbu | |
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Religion | Buddhism |
School | Nyingma |
Lineage | Palyul |
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 |
Personal | |
Nationality | Tibetan |
Born |
Powo, Kham region, Tibet |
March 27, 1932
Died | March 27, 2009 Namdroling Monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysuru, India |
(aged 77)
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Senior posting | |
Title | The 11th Throne-Holder of Palyul Lineage, The 3rd Padma Norbu, The 3rd Supreme Head of Nyingma |
Predecessor | Karma Thegchog Nyingpo |
Successor | Karma Kuchen, 12th Throne-Holder of Palyul Linage |
Religious career | |
Teacher | 5th Dzogchen Rinpoche Thubtan Choskyi Dorje, Khenpo Ngaga Rinpoche, Thubtan Choskyi Dawa, Karma Thegchog Nyingpo |
Reincarnation | Palchen Duspa |
Website | http://www.palyul.org/, http://www.namdroling.net/ |
Kyabjé Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche (Tibetan: པདྨ་ནོར་བུ་, Wylie: pad+ma nor bu,1932 - March 27, 2009) was the 11th throne holder of the Palyul Lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, and said to be an incarnation of Vimalamitra. He was widely renowned in the Tibetan Buddhist world as a master of Dzogchen. He was one of a very few teachers left from his generation who received all his training (in the traditional sense) in Tibet under the guidance of what Tibetan Buddhists consider to be fully enlightened teachers.
The Third Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche, Thubten Legshed Chokyi Drayang (Wylie: thub bstan legs shad chos kyi sgra dbyangs), also known as Do-ngag Shedrub Tenzin Chog-lei Namgyal (Wylie: mdo sngags shad sgrub bstan 'zin mchog las rnam rgyal) was born in 1932, the year of the Water Monkey, in the twelfth month, in the Powo region of Kham, East Tibet. He was recognized in 1936 by the Fifth Dzogchen Rinpoche (Thubten Chokyi Dorje) and Khenpo Ngaga Rinpoche (also known as Khenchen Ngagi Wangchuk, Ngawang Palzangpo, or Khenpo Ngagchung). Padma Norbu was formally enthroned by his root teacher, Thubten Chökyi Dawa (1894–1959) the second Chogtrul Rinpoche, and Karma Thegchog Nyingpo (1908–1958) the Fourth Karma Kuchen. He trained at the Palyul Monastery in Tibet, studying and receiving teachings from numerous masters and scholars, including the Fourth Karma Kuchen, the 10th Palyul throneholder.
In 1959, recognizing the situation in Eastern Tibet to be very tense, Penor Rinpoche left with a party of 300 for Pémakö in Northeast India. Only 30 of the original party survived. In 1961, they were resettled in South India in Bylakuppe in a series of Tibetan camps where Penor Rinpoche initially built a bamboo temple to train a small handful of monks in 1963.