Khenpo Chodrak

མཁན་པོ་ཤེས་རབ་དཔལ་ལྡན།
mkhan chen shes rab dpal ldan
Khenchen Sherab Palden
མཁན་ཆེན་ཤེས་རབ་དཔལ་ལྡན།
mkhan chen shes rab dpal ldan

Short Biography

The Very Venerable Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche is one of the most qualified scholars and teachers of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
He entered Gochen Monastery at the age of six, where he began intensive training in all facets of Tibetan Buddhism. At age 12 he entered Riwoche Monastery, training to become a Khenpo. In 1960 he had to flee to India. There, for over 15 years, he was in charge of the Nyingmapa Department at the Central Institute of Higher Studies in Varanasi, as well as being a founding member of that Institute. In the 1980's he began teaching at various centers of Dudjom Rinpoche in the West. In 1988, along with his brother, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, who acts as his translator, he founded the Padmasambhava Buddhist Centers, which now have branches in the U.S., India, and Russia.
Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche has received many honors for his scholarship from His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche and other Tibetan leaders. He is fully versed in many areas of Buddhist study and is the author of several learned works and Tibetan language books. He is also considered a master of Dzogchen, the highest tradition of meditation practice in Tibetan Buddhism.

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Primary Teachers

• Khenchen Tendzin Dragpa
• Dzigar Kongtrul Lodro Rabphel
• Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
• Kangyur Rinpoche
• Dilgo Khyentse Tashi Paljor
• Khenchen Thubten Tsondru
• Riwoche Khenpo Dragpa Jangchub
• Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen

Primary Lineage

• Terton Tsasum Lingpa Terkor
• Longchen Nyingtik
• Jatson Nyingpo Chodruk
• Sangye Lingpa Terkor
• Ratna Lingpa Terdzo
• Chetsun Nyingtik
• Taglung Kagyu
• Mipham

Publications

English Publications

• The Smile of the Sun and Moon, a commentary on the Praise to the 21 Taras.
• Books with Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche:
  • Opening to our Primordial Nature
• Publications by Sky Dancer Press include:
  • Ceaseless Echoes of the Great Silence;
  • The Door of Inconceivable Wisdom and Compassion;
  • Lion's Gaze;
  • The Prajnaparamita
  • The Six Perfections

Tibetan Publications

• Collected Works of Khenpo Palden Sherab
• Commentaries On:
  • Mipham Rinpoche's Definitive Meaning: The Sword of Wisdom
  • Nup Sangye Yeshe's Lamp of the Eye of Meditation
  • Padmasambhava's Stages of the Path, a Heap of Jewels
  • Vasubandhu's Twenty Stanzas
  • Heart Sutra
• Commentaries on Prayers to:
  • Padmasambhava
  • Yeshe Tsogyal
  • Tsasum Lingpa
  • The Praise to the 21 Taras
  • Vajrasattva Mantra
• Biographies of:
  • Nup Sangye Yeshe and his incarnations;
  • Machik Labdron;
  • Khenchen Tendzin Dragpa (Khenchen Palden's root guru);
  • A history of Sangphu Neuthok Monastery, which includes biographies of Ngok Lotsawa Loden Sherab and his disciples
• Compositions on:
  • Logic
  • Madhyamaka
  • Grammar
  • Sadhanas
  • Prayers
  • Poems

Internal Links

• Sherab Raltri
  

External Links

Main Web-site for Padmasambhava Centers [1]

Contact Information

• Email Address: jowozegyal@catskill.net