President Karma Kuchen Nickname NNI Number of students 1,086 (Now) | Doctoral students 213 Website www.palyul.org Type of business Buddhist Institute | |
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Principal Khenpo Pasang Tshering (Now) Address Bylakuppe, Karnataka 571104 Active Penor Rinpoche (1978, Founder) Similar Namdroli Monastery, Golden Temple, Buddhist Temple, Sera Mey Gyalrong Khamtsen, Sera Mey Monastic University | ||
Ngagyur nyingma institute palyul namdroling monastery
General Information
The Ngagyur Nyingma Institute NNI, (Tib: སྔ་འགྱུར་མཐོ་སློབ་མདོ་སྔགས་རིག་པའི་འབྱུང་གནས་གླིང་།, Wylie: snga 'gyur mtho slob mdo ngags rig pa'i 'byung gnas gling) of Namdroling Monastery was established by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche in 1978. Students from various countries go there for higher Buddhist studies. For nine years, they mainly study the Sutra and Tantra teachings of the Buddha, as well as the commentaries written by great Indian and Tibetan scholars. As an ancillary subjects, they study Buddhist philosophy in general, poetry, composition, grammar and the history of Tibet, as well as English and other languages. During the nine-year course, students complete four years for a མཐའ་བྲལ་སྨྲ་བའི་དབང་ཕྱུག tha-bral smra-ba'i dbang-phyug degree (equivalent to a Higher Secondary degree), two more years for a ཕར་ཕྱིན་རབ་འབྱམས། phar-phyin rab-'byams degree (equivalent to a bachelor's degree) and the last three years for a མདོ་རྒྱུད་ངེས་དོན་བསྟན་པའི་སྣང་བྱེད་ཆེན་པོ། mdo-rgyud nges-don btan-pa'i nyin-byed chen-po degree (equivalent to a master's degree). After the completion of the nine-year course, earning these three degrees, they are then placed in various monasteries and Dharma centres in Himalayan countries and abroad to render their service of teaching Buddhism. NNI also provides an option to continue one’s study and research towards a PhD.
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- Ngagyur nyingma institute palyul namdroling monastery
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