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,[1] 12th Throne-Holder of Palyul Lineage
Location
Location	Baiyü, Baiyü County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Country	China
Architecture
Founder	Rigzin Kunzang Sherab
Date established	1665

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.

Namdroling Monastery in Bylakuppe, India, is where the current throneholder to the Palyul lineage has resided since exile from Tibet during Chinese annexation.