Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche

You know, I don’t know why sometimes the universe seems so unfair.  All I know is, my teacher of  over 30 years passed into parinirvana the evening of June 19, 2010.

H.H. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche was a Tibetan Buddhist monk and master teacher.  He was of the Nyingpa lineage, but he was not only a Nyingma scholar, but also a scholar of many of the different lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

I met him and his brother, H.H. Khempo Palden Sherab Rinpoche, shortly after they came to the U.S.  from India in 1980.  They were a teaching duo.  Khenchen spoke little English, and even after he learned it, he preferred to speak and teach in Tibetan. (more…)