Ngagyur Nyingma Institute

{{Short description|Higher buddhist studies and research center of Nyingma school}}

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|established = 1978, Founder: Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche

|type = Buddhist Institute

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|president = Karma Kuchen{{Cite web |url=http://www.palyul.org/eng_biotulku_karmakuchen.htm |title=Palyul Teachers: Karma Kuchen Rinpoche |access-date=2016-10-26 |archive-date=2016-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026130334/http://www.palyul.org/eng_biotulku_karmakuchen.htm |url-status=dead }}

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Khenpo Tshultrim Tandar (Now)
Khenpo Ngawang Samten (2022-2023)
Khenpo Sonam Norbu (2021-2022)
Khenpo Kunzang Dechen (2020-2021)
Khenpo Sonam Dorji (2019-2020)
Khenpo Tsewang Norbu (2018-2019)
Khenpo Tashi Namgyal (2017-2018)
Khenpo Pasang Tshering (2016-2017)
Khenpo Yeshe Dorje (2015-2016)
Khenpo Tadrin Sridthub (2014-2015)
Khenpo Tsewang Sonam (2013-2014)
Khenpo Tshering Dorje (2012-2013)
Khenpo Jigme Kelzang (2011-2012)
Khenpo Jamyang Tshering (2010-2011)
Khenpo Tashi Tshering (2009-2010)

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|students = 1086 (In 2017)

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|doctoral = 213

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|city = Namdroling Monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysuru

|state = Karnataka

|country = India

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The Ngagyur Nyingma Institute (Tib: {{bo-textonly|སྔ་འགྱུར་མཐོ་སློབ་མདོ་སྔགས་རིག་པའི་འབྱུང་གནས་གླིང་།}}, Wylie: {{Transliteration|bo|snga 'gyur mtho slob mdo sngags rig pa'i 'byung gnas gling}}) of Namdroling Monastery was established by Penor Rinpoche in 1978.

General Information

Students from various countries go to Ngagyur Nyingma Institute 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 {{bo-textonly|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 {{bo-textonly|ཕར་ཕྱིན་རབ་འབྱམས།}} phar-phyin rab-'byams degree (equivalent to a bachelor's degree) and the last three years for a {{bo-textonly|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. Ngagyur Nyingma Institute also provides an option to continue one’s study and research towards a PhD.VIth Convocation Souvenir 2010 | Published by Ngagyur Rigzod Editorial Committee, Copyright NREC-2010Golden Temple, Fifth Edition, Copyright 2013 | {{ISBN|938306807-8}} | Published by Ngagyur Rigzod Editorial Committeehttp://www.tbrc.org/eBooks/W1KG6201-I1KG6239-1-220-any.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}