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    Palpung Monastery (Tibetan: དཔལ་སྤུངས།, Wylie: dpal spungs dgon pa) is the name of the congregation of monasteries and centers of the Tai Situpa lineage...
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    Pema Tönyö Nyinje (category Palpung Tai Situ tulkus)
    the leading figures of the Karma Kagyu school. He is the head of Palpung Monastery. Pema Tönyö Nyinje was born in 1954 in the village of Palmey, Palyul...
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  • Tai Situpa (category Palpung Tai Situ tulkus)
    Palpung Sherabling Monastery currently has approximately 1000 monks; 250 are enrolled in the monastic university curriculum on the premises. Palpung Yeshe...
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    Bon monastery, and then at 20 became a monk at Shechen, a major Nyingma monastery in the region, later moving on to the Kagyu Palpung monastery in 1833...
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  • (1932–2003) and received his early monastic education at the shedra at Palpung Monastery. He studied at Surmang Namgyal-tse until 2008, and now studies at...
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    of Palpung Monastery. Historically it lay in the Kham region of Tibet. It was founded in 746, destroyed in 1958, and rebuilt in 1983. The monastery belongs...
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    Dzogchen Monastery Dzongsar Monastery Kandze Monastery Kharnang Monastery Nanwu Si Monastery Palpung Monastery Sershul Monastery Tongkor Monastery Larung...
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    fifteen years old, he was sent to begin his higher studies at the monastery of Palpung, the foremost center of the Karma Kagyu school. He remained there...
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    Lhundrub Palpung Monastery — the seat of the Tai Situpa and Jamgon Kongtrul Ralung Monastery — the seat of the Gyalwang Drukpa Surmang Monastery — the seat...
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    the Hengduan conifer forests. Babang is known for the 18th-century Palpung Monastery located on a ridge approximately 160 m (520 ft) above the centre of...
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