Penor rinpoche biography sample

His Holiness Penor Rinpoche (Tib.

Penor rinpoche reincarnation

པད་ནོར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl.pad nor rin po che) or Kyabjé Drubwang Pema Norbu Rinpoche () was the 11th throne holder of the Palyul Lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the supreme head of the Nyingmapa lineage from to

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Penor Rinpoche was born in , in the Powo region of Kham, East Tibet. Choktrul Rinpoche was his main master, although he received teachings from many lamas. Beside becoming learned in several subjects including writing, poetry, astrology and medicine, he studied the sutras with different khenpos.

Aged twelve, he received from Choktrul Rinpoche the most important transmissions and empowerments of the Nyingma School, including the great empowerment of the Kagyé and the Rinchen Terdzö empowerments. From the fourth Karma Kuchen Rinpoche he received the terma revelations of Ratna Lingpa.

At twenty one he was fully ordained by his master at Palyul Dartang Monastery following the vinaya line