His Holi­ness Pema Norbu Rin­poche was the 11th Throne­holder of The Palyul Lin­eage of Nyingma. He was con­sid­ered one of the of the fore­most mas­ters of the Bud­dhist tra­di­tion of Tibet. Through­out the Bud­dhist com­mu­nity he was respected for his vast knowl­edge and accom­plish­ment and for the integrity and strength with which he upheld the Bud­dhist teach­ings. His Holi­ness attained Parinir­vana on March 27, 2009.
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His Holi­ness Penor Rin­poche for­mally enthroned the Fifth Karma Kuchen Rin­poche on 14 August 2000, as the 12th lin­eage holder of the Palyul Tra­di­tion. Just as the sec­ond Penor Rin­poche guided the Fourth Karma Kuchen Rin­poche, so did the Third Penor Rin­poche guide and teach His Holi­ness Karma Kuchen Rin­poche.
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His Emi­nence Khen­tul Gyangkhang Rin­poche shoul­ders the teach­ing as well as admin­sti­ra­tive duties at Nam­drol­ing Monastery with His Emi­nence Mugsang Kuchen Rin­poche. He has offi­ci­ated over many of the main monas­tic cer­e­monies assist­ing as His Holi­ness Penor Rinpoche’s health weak­ened.
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His Emi­nence Mugsang Kuchen Rin­poche shoul­ders admin­is­tra­tive respon­si­bil­i­ties with Khen­tul Gyangkhang Rin­poche. He is rec­og­nized as an ema­na­tion of Ter­ton Migyur Dorje – the trea­sure revealer who brought us the pre­cious Nam Chö (Sky Trea­sure) teach­ings.
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Rin­poche was born in Havana, Cuba of Ger­man and Span­ish par­ents on August 2, 1938. He arrived in Canada in Jan­u­ary of 1959 after the Cuban Rev­o­lu­tion. A life long stu­dent and prac­ti­tioner of the Dharma, Rin­poche was given Bhikkshu ordi­na­tion and the name Lama Karma Jet­sun Dor­jechang Jam­gon Jampa Rab­jam Ten­zin Dorje i in 1977 by His Holi­ness Karmapa XVI. His Holi­ness also rec­og­nized Rin­poche as the mind ema­na­tion of Padma Lingpa and the activ­ity ema­na­tion of Karma Lingpa dur­ing a visit to his Toronto cen­tre in 1980.
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Khenchen Tse­wang Gyatso Rin­poche was born in 1954 in a vil­lage near Lhakhang Dzong in the south­ern region of Tibet bor­der­ing Bhutan called Lho­drak. From his birth, his par­ents had a strong feel­ing that they should place him in the nearby monastery of Nub Namkha’i Nyingpo. The head lama, Namkha’i Nyingpo Rin­poche, was the tulku of one of the twenty-five dis­ci­ples of Guru Pad­masamb­hava.
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Khenpo Ten­zin Nor­gay Rin­poche was born in Bhutan in 1965. After com­plet­ing sec­ondary school in 1986, he joined Ngagyur Nyingma Insti­tute, the pres­ti­gious Bud­dhist stud­ies and research cen­ter, at Nam­drol­ing Monastery in Mysore.
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Ven­er­a­ble Lama Jigme Chokyi Lodro is the head of the Palyul Foun­da­tion of Canada and Orgyan Osal Cho Dzong Bud­dhist Tem­ple and Retreat Cen­tre. Born in Nia­gara Falls in 1956, Lama Jigme first met Ven­er­a­ble Pel­ing Tulku Rin­poche in 1976 and became a Bud­dhist that same year. Since that time, he has stud­ied and prac­ticed the Bud­dhist path with Pel­ing Rin­poche, becom­ing his per­sonal assis­tant and tak­ing novice vows in 1980, monks vows in 1988 and then full ordi­na­tion (Bikkshu) from His Holi­ness Penor Rin­poche in India in 1995.
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