Palyul Monastery

Palyul Monastery
Palyul Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s); Tibetan: དཔལ་ཡུལ་དགོན་པ།; Wylie transliteration: dpal yul dgon pa; Tournadre Phonetic: Baiyü; THL: Pelyül; Other transcriptions: Palyul, Palyül; Chinese transcription(s); Traditional: 白玉寺; Simplified: 白玉寺; Pinyin: Báiyù Sì
	Lower Palyul Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Nyingma
Leadership	Karma Kuchen, 12th Throne-Holder of Palyul Lineage
Location
Location	Baiyü, Baiyü County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Country	China
	Interactive map of Palyul Monastery
Architecture
Founder	Rigzin Kunzang Sherab
Established	1665; 361 years ago

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.

Dartang Monastery in Golok is a branch of Pelyul Monastery.

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

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."
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

↑ "Palyul Teachers: Karma Kuchen Rinpoche". www.palyul.org. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
↑ "Pelyul Monastery". The Treasury of Lives. Archived from the original on 24 January 2026. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
↑ "Dartang Monastery". The Treasury of Lives. Archived from the original on 19 December 2025. Retrieved 29 September 2026.
↑ Chhosphel, Samten (August 2011). "Namchö Mingyur Dorje". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
↑ Gardner, Alexander (November 2011). "Jampel Dorje". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 8 October 2013.

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 (PDF-Datei; 1,8 MB)

Palyul Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: དཔལ་ཡུལ་དགོན་པ། Wylie transliteration: dpal yul dgon pa Tournadre Phonetic: Baiyü THL: Pelyül Other transcriptions: Palyul, Palyül Chinese transcription(s) Traditional: 白玉寺 Simplified: 白玉寺 Pinyin: Báiyù Sì
Lower Palyul Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Nyingma
Leadership	Karma Kuchen, 12th Throne-Holder of Palyul Lineage
Location
Location	Baiyü, Baiyü County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Country	China
Interactive map of Palyul Monastery
Architecture
Founder	Rigzin Kunzang Sherab
Established	1665; 361 years ago (1665)