His Holiness Penor Rinpoche (Tib. པད་ནོར་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wyl. pad nor rin po che) or Kyabjé Drubwang III Pema Norbu (also known as Thubten Legshed Chokyi Drayang and Do-ngag Shadrub Tanzin Chog-las Namgyal) was the 11th throne holder of the Palyul Lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the third supreme head of the Nyingmapas from 1993 to 2001. Having escapted the advance of the Chinese into Tibet in 1959, and receiving asylum in India, he went on to found Namdroling Monastery in 1963 near Bylakuppe, Karnataka state, which went on to become the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage in the world. There, Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche co-founded the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute in 1978, where he remains one of the principal instructors of the nine-year shedra (Buddhist college) program.
