Kyabjé 3rd Drubwang Pema Norbu, Lekshe Chokyi Drayang, widely known as Penor Rinpoche, was the 11th throneholder of the Palyul Lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, and the 3rd Drubwang Padma Norbu. He is recognized as the incarnation of Vimalamitra, an 8th century Buddhist Monk. By the age of 17, he had received the corpus of Payul lineage teachings including Dzogchen teachings, and became a renowned Dzogchen master. He began his escape from Tibet in 1959 with 300 people, and only 30 arrived in India. While working alongside laborers, he rebuilt Palyul Monastery in Karnataka, India, where more than 5,000 Nyingma school monks and nuns study. He was one of a very few teachers left from his generation who received all his traditional training in Tibet under the guidance of fully enlightened masters. His rebuilding of the Palyul tradition in exile has grown to include monasteries, nunneries, and retreat centers in Tibet, India, and Nepal with numerous western projects such as the Palyul Retreat Center in New York state. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penor_R...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)