Namdroling Monastery

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Namdroling Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་། Wylie transliteration: Theg-mchog-rnam-grol-bshad-sgrub-dar-rgyas-gling
Entrance gate of the Namdroling
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Nyingma
Festivals	Losar, Drubchen, bKa-ma'i Drubchod, Sagadawa, Mipham Anniversary, Longchen Anniversary, Gutor etc;
Leadership	Karma Kuchen,[1] 12th Throneholder of Palyul Lineage
Location
Location	Namdroling, Bylakuppe, Mysore, Karnataka  India
Geographic coordinates	12°25′49.8″N 75°58′2.53″E / 12.430500°N 75.9673694°E / 12.430500; 75.9673694
Architecture
Founder	Kyabje Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche, also known as Penor Rinpoche

The Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery or Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargye Ling(བོད་ཡིག ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།) (Wylie: theg mchog rnam grol bshad sgrub dar rgyas gling), or ನಮ್ಡ್ರೋಲಿಂಗ್ ವಿಹಾರ (Namdroling Vihara) is the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. Located in Bylakuppe, part of the Mysuru district of the state of Karnataka, the monastery is home to a sangha community of over five thousand lamas (both monks and nuns), a junior high school named Yeshe Wodsal Sherab Raldri Ling, a religious college (or shedra for both monks and nuns) and hospital.