Khenchen Palden Sherab

Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche (bo|t=དཔལ་ལྡན་ཤེས་རབ་|w=dpal ldan shes rab) (May 10, 1942 - ) is a scholar and lama in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Life

Khenchen Palden Sherab was born in the Dhoshul region of Kham, Tibet. He completed his shedra (monastic university) education at the Taklung Kagyu monastery of Riwoche in the Riwoche region of Kham just prior to China's invasion, and was groomed to take over as the abbot of Gochen Monastery.

Following China's annexation of eastern Tibet, he fled with his family to India in 1950. He lost his mother and sisters in the journey, although his father, Lama Chimed Namgyal Rinpoche, and brother survived. Once in exile, His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche requested that Khenchen Palden join the committee of the four main Tibetan schools dedicated to recovering sacred texts missing or destroyed in the struggle with China. He salvaged thousands of texts and commentaries, and recreated from his personal notes lost texts such as Mipham's autocommentary on "Sherab Raldri: Sword of Prajña." [Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche. "The Blazing Lights of the Sun and Moon," Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, 1967 [http://www.pbdc.net/teach/Blazing%20Lights%20of%20the%20Sun%20%26%20Moon.pdf] ]

Khechen Palden Sherab Rinpoche traveled to the United States in 1980 with his brother, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. Together they founded Dharma Samudra, a non-profit publishing organization, in 1985. Since then they have published numerous texts on Tibetan language, poetry, grammar, Buddhist philosophy and practice, logic and tantra, as well as Tibetan histories. In 1989 they also founded the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center, which includes over twenty branch temples and monastic institutions in the United States, Puerto Rico, Russia, and India. Their headquarters is at Pema Samye Ling retreat center an monastery in Delaware County, New York.

Khechen Palden is knowledgeable in the Therevada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Schools of Buddhism; but he is particularly well known for his texts and teachings on Dzogchen.

Publications

English

*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Ceaseless Echoes of Great Silence". Sky Dancer Press, 1999. ISBN:1880975025
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Door to Inconceivable Wisdom and Compassion". Sky Dancer, 1996.
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Illuminating the Path: Ngondro Instructions According to the Nyingma School of Vajrayana Buddhism". Padmasambhava Buddhist Center, 2008.
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Lion's Gaze: A Commentary on Tsig Sum Nedek". Sky Dancer Press, 1998. ISBN:188097505x
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Opening the Clear Vision of the Vaibhashika and Sautrantika Schools". Dharma Samudra, 2007.
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Opening the Clear Vision of the Mind Only School". Dharma Samudra, 2007.
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Opening the Wisdom Door of the Madhyamaka School". Dharma Samudra, 2007.
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Opening the Wisdom Door of the Rangtong and Shentong Views: A Brief Explanation of the One Taste of the Second and Third Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma". Dharma Samudra, 2007.
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Opening To Our Primordial Nature." Snow Lion Publications, 2006. ISBN:1559392495
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche. "Prajnaparamita: The Six Perfections". Sky Dancer Press, 1990. ISBN:1880975009
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "Tara's Enlightened Activity: An Oral Commentary on The Twenty-one Praises to Tara." Snow Lion Publications, 2007. ISBN:1559392878
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche. "The Commentary on Mipham's Sherab Raltri Entitled: The Blazing Lights of the Sun and Moon." Dharma Samudra, 1997.
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche. "The Dark Red Amulet: Oral Instructions of the Practice of Vajrakilaya". Snow Lion Publications, 2008. ISBN:1559393114
*Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche. "The Smile of Sun and Moon: A Commentary on the Praise to the Twenty-One Taras". Sky Dancer Press, 2004. ISBN:1880975076

English and Tibetan

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Tibetan

* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/sherab%20raldri.pdf The Blazing Lights of the Sun and Moon] (bo|t=དོན་རྣམ་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རལ་གྲིའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཉི་ཟླ་འབར་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ།|w=don rnam par nges pa shes rab ral gri'i 'grel pa shes rab nyi zla 'bar ba'i sgron me/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/dbuma.pdf Pleasure Lake of Nagarjuna's Intention] (bo|t=དབུ་མ་སྤྱིའི་དོན་རྣམ་པར་གཞཱག་པ་ལྐུ་སྒྲུབ་དགོངས་པའི་རོལ་མཚོ།|w=dbu ma spyi'i don rnam par gzhag pa klu sgrub dgongs pa'i rol mtsho/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/tsadma.pdf Supreme Clear Mirror] (bo|t=ཙད་མའི་མདོ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་མཆོད་བརྗོབ་ཀྱི་རྣམ་འགྲེལ་ལེའུ་གནིས་པའི་བསྟན་པ་དང་སྟོན་པ་ཚད་མར་གྲུབ་པའི་དངོས་སྟོབས་རིགས་པའི་དགུ་ཚིགས་སྐྱ་མོ།|w= tsad ma'i mdo kun las btus pa'i mchod brjod kyi rnam 'grel le'u gnis pa'i bstan pa dang ston pa tshad mar grub pa'i dngos stobs rigs pa'i dgu tshigs skya mo/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/nyi%20shu%20pa'i%20sa%20bcad.pdf The Ornament of Stars at Dawn] (bo|t=ཉི་ཤུ་པའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་གྱི་ས་བཅད་ཐོ་རངས་སྐར་རྒྱན།|w=nyi shu pa'i mchan 'grel gyi sa bcad tho rangs skar rgyan/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/bardo.pdf The Mirror of Mindfulness] (bo|t=རྒྱལ་དབང་སངས་རྒྱས་པདམའི་གདམས་ངག་བར་དོའི་རྣམ་བཤད་དྲན་པའི་མེ་ལོང།|w=rgyal dbang sangs rgyas padma'i gdams ngag bar do'i rnam bshad dran pa'i me long/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/bardo.pdf Naturally Blazing Great Bliss] (bo|t=གཏུམ་མོའི་རྣམ་བཤད་བདེ་ཆེན་རང་འབར།|w=gtum mo'i rnam bshad bde chen rang 'bar/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/Tsasum%20Lingpa'i%20soldeb'grel.pdf Clouds of Blessings] (bo|t=རྩ་གསུམ་གླིང་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་ཆུང་བྱིན་བརླབས་སྤྲིན་ཕུང།|w=rtsa gsum gling pa'i gsol 'debs kyi 'grel chung byin brlabs sprin phung/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/guru%20soldeb'grel.pdf White Lotus] (bo|t=གུ་རུའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་དང་བར་ཆད་ལམ་སེལ་བསྡུས་པའི་ཚིག་གི་འགྲེལ་པ་པདམ་དཀར་པོ།|w=gu ru'i gsol 'debs bsam pa lhun grub dang bar chad lam sel bsdus pa'i tshig gi 'grel pa padma dkar po/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/kunbzang%20monlam%20sa%20bcad.pdf The Essence of Diamond Clear Light] (bo|t=རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀུན་བཟང་དགོངས་པ་བཟང་དགོངས་པ་ཟང་ཐལ་རྒྱུད་ལས་སྨོན་ལམ་སྟོབས་པོ་ཆེའི་བསྡུས་དོན་འོད་གསལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙིང་པོ་ཉི་མའི་གཟི་འོད།|w=rdzogs pa chen po kun bzang dgongs pa zang thal rgyud las smon lam stobs po che'i bsdus don 'od gsal rdo rje snying po nyi ma'i gzi 'od/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/byamspa'i%20smonlam.pdf Taking Kindness as Path] (bo|t=རྒྱལ་བ་བྱམས་པའི་སྨོན་མ་བྱམས་པ་ལམ་ཁྱེར།|w=rgyal ba byams pa'i smon lam byams pa lam khyer/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=53 Opening the Eyes of Wisdom] (bo|t=གནུབས་ཆེན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་བསམ་གཏན་མིག་སྒྲོན་ལེའུ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྤྱི་བཤད་མདོར་བསྡུས་ཤེས་རབ་མིག་འབྱེད།|w=gnubs chen sangs rgyas ye shes kyi bsam gtan mig sgron le'u rnams kyi spyi bshad mdor bsdus shes rab mig 'byed/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/yigbrgya.pdf Blazing Clouds of Wisdom and Compassion] (bo|t=གསང་སྔགས་ཡིག་བརྒྱ་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག་འགྲེལ་ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་རྗེའི་འབར་བའི་སྤྲིན་ཕུང།|w=gsang sngags yig brgya pa'i rdo rje'i tshig 'grel shes rab snying rje'i 'bar ba'i sprin phung/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/dorje%20chopa'i%20grel.pdf Advice from Kamalashila] (bo|t=རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པའི་བསྡུས་དོན་འགྲེལ་པ་ཀ་མ་ལ་ཤི་ལའི་ཞལ་ལུང།|w=rdo rje gcod pa'i bsdus don 'grel pa ka ma la shi la'i zhal lung/)
** [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/dorje%20chopa%20rtsawa%20plus%20sa%20bcad.pdf The Diamond Sutra] , with an outline based on the above commentary (bo|t=འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པའི་ས་བཅད་བསྟུས་པ།|w='phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa'i sa bcad bstus pa/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/lamrim'grel.pdf Advice from the Ancestral Vidyadhara] (bo|t=ལམ་རིམ་རིན་ཆེན་སྤུངས་པའི་བསྡུས་སོན་སྔ་འགྱུར་རིག་འཛིན་མྱེས་པོའི་ཞལ་ལུང།|w=lam rim rin chen spungs pa'i bsdus don snga 'gyur rig 'dzin myes po'i zhal lung/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/Tsogyal%20soldeb'grel.pdf Smiling Red Lotus] (bo|t=མཁའ་འགྲོའི་གཙོ་མོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་མྶྷོ་རྒྱལ་གསོལ་འདེབས་འགྲེལ་ཆུང་པདམ་དམར་པོ་བཞད་པ།|w=mkha' 'gro'i gtso mo ye shes msho rgyal gsol 'debs 'grel chung padma dmar po bzhad pa/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/Tenzin%20Dragpa'i%20namthar.pdf Lotus Necklace of Devotion] (bo|t=མཀཧན་ཆེན་བསྟན་འཛིན་གྲགས་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར་དད་ལྡན་པདམའི་དོ་ཤལ།|w=mkhan chen bstan 'dzin grags pa'i rnam thar dad ldan padma'i do shal/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/Nubchen%20bstodpa.pdf Waves of the Ocean of Devotion] (bo|t=གནུབས་ཆེན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་དད་པ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་རྦ་རླབས།|w=gnubs chen sangs rgyas ye shes kyi rnam par thar pa la bstod pa dad pa rgya mtsho'i rba rlabs/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/Nubchen%20rnamsprul.pdf Vajra Rosary] (bo|t=གནུབས་ཆེན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་སྐྱེས་རབས་རིག་འཛིན་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་རྣམ་ཐར་མདོར་བསྡུས་བཀོད་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཕྲེང་བ།|w=gnubs chen sangs rgyas ye shes kyi skyes rabs rig 'dzin rnams kyi gsol 'debs rnam thar mdor bsdus bkod pa rdo rje'i phreng ba/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=69 Opening the Door of Blessings] (bo|t=མ་གཅིག་ལབས་སྒྲོན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་བསྡུས་པ་བྱིན་རླབས་སྒོ་འབྱེད།|w=ma gcig labs sgron gyi rnam thar bsdus pa byin rlabs sgo 'byed/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/tshigs%20bcad%20skor.pdf Cycle of Poems] (bo|t=ཚིགས་བཅད་སྐོར།|w=tshigs bcad skor/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/soldeb%20skor.pdf Cycle of Prayers] (bo|t=གསོལ་འདེབས་སྐོར།|w=gsol 'debs skor/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/shis%20smon%20skor.pdf Verses of Auspiciousness] (bo|t=ཤིས་སྨོན་སྐོར།|w=shis smon skor/)
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/sgrub%20thabs%20skor.pdf Cycle of Sadhanas] (bo|t=སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་སྐོར།|w=sgrub thabs skor/)

Works by others about Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche

* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/ebooks/bstod%20pa%20gsum.pdf Three Praises To Khenchen Palden Sherab Entitled Melodious Sound of the Ocean of Devotion] by Khenpo Pema Gyaltsen (bo|t=རྗེ་བཙུན་བླ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ་མོས་གུས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་དབྱངས་ཚིག།|w=rje btsun bla ma'i bstod pa mos gus rgya mtsho'i dbyangs tshig/)

References

* [http://www.snowlionpub.com/pages/Khenchen_Palden_Sherab.html Snow Lion Publications biography]
* [http://www.padmasambhava.org/ Padmasambhava Buddhist Center]

See also

* Dudjom Rinpoche
* Dzogchen
* Gochen
* Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche
* Kunu Lama
* Lama Chimed Namgyal Rinpoche
* Nyingma
* Padmasambhava Buddhist Center
* Riwoche
* Taklung Kagyu

External links

* [http://padmasambhava.org/ Padmasambhava Buddhist Center]
* [http://www.dharmafellowship.org/biographies/contemporarymasters/khenchen-palden-sherab.htm Biographies: The Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche]
* [http://www.skydancerpress.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=51 Collected Works of Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche]
* [http://www.snowlionpub.com/pages/Khenchen_Palden_Sherab.html Snow Lion Publications: Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche]
* [http://www.ordinarymind.net/Feature/feature1_jan2002.htm "A Dzogchen Approach to Meditation" by Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche]
* [http://www.turtlehill.org/khen/zkpsr.html Turtle Hill Sangha: Palden Tsawa'i Lama Rinpoche]
* [http://www.turtlehill.org/khen/zkpsr.html Pe-mai Chiso: Books by the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches]
* [http://www.chiso.citymax.com/morning_dawn.html Pe-mai Chiso: Morning Dawn Study Series by the Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches]