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 1960. 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.
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 was knowledgeable in the Therevada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Schools of Buddhism; but he was particularly well known for his texts and teachings on Dzogchen.
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
Spanish
Tibetan
The Blazing Lights of the Sun and Moon ()
Pleasure Lake of Nagarjuna's Intention ()
Supreme Clear Mirror ()
The Ornament of Stars at Dawn ()
The Mirror of Mindfulness ()
Naturally Blazing Great Bliss ()
Clouds of Blessings ()
White Lotus ()
The Essence of Diamond Clear Light ()
Taking Kindness as Path ()
Opening the Eyes of Wisdom () a commentary on the Samten Migdron
Blazing Clouds of Wisdom and Compassion ()
Advice from Kamalashila ()
The Diamond Sutra, with an outline based on the above commentary ()
Advice from the Ancestral Vidyadhara ()
Smiling Red Lotus ()
Lotus Necklace of Devotion ()
Waves of the Ocean of Devotion ()
Vajra Rosary ()
Opening the Door of Blessings ()
Cycle of Poems ()
Cycle of Prayers ()
Verses of Auspiciousness ()
Cycle of Sadhanas ()
Works by others about Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
Three Praises To Khenchen Palden Sherab Entitled Melodious Sound of the Ocean of Devotion by Khenpo Pema Gyaltsen ()
