Ngagyur Nyingma Institute

Ngagyur Nyingma Institute

Ngagyur Nyingma Institute Higher Buddhist Studies & Research Center
Type Buddhist Institute
Established 1978, Founder: Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche
President Karma Kuchen[1]
Principal Khenpo Pasang Tshering (Now)
Students 1086 (Now)
213
Location Namdroling Monastery, Bylakuppe, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
Nickname NNI
Website www.palyul.org

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.[2][3][4]

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.palyul.org/eng_biotulku_karmakuchen.htm
  2. ↑ VIth Convocation Souvenir 2010 | Published by Ngagyur Rigzod Editorial Committee, Copyright NREC-2010
  3. ↑ Golden Temple, Fifth Edition, Copyright 2013 | ISBN 938306807-8 | Published by Ngagyur Rigzod Editorial Committee
  4. ↑ http://www.tbrc.org/eBooks/W1KG6201-I1KG6239-1-220-any.pdf

Further reading

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