Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche is a renowned scholar and meditation master of Nyingma, the Ancient School of Tibetan Buddhism.

He was born in 1942 in the Droshul region of Kham, Eastern Tibet. Starting his education at the age of four, he was trained to become the next abbot of Gochen monastery. At the age of twelve he entered Riwoche monastery and completed his studies just before the Chinese invasion. His root teacher was the illustrious Khenpo Tenzin Dragpa (Katog Khenpo Akshu) who later attained the rainbow body, the highest Dzogchen realization.

In 1960 Rinpoche escaped to India. Eventually, he was appointed head of the Nyingmapa department of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath. He held this position for seventeen years, dedicating all his time and energy to ensure the survival and spread of the Buddhist teaching.

Rinpoche moved to the United States in 1984 to work closely with H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, the supreme head of the Nyingmapa lineage. He travels extensively within the U.S. and throughout the world, giving teachings at numerous retreats and seminars and establishing meditation centers.

His collected works in Tibetan include: Opening the Eyes of Wisdom, a commentary on Sangye Yeshe's Lamp of the Eye of Contemplation; Waves of the Ocean of Devotion, a biography-praise to Nubchen Sangye Yeshe and Vajra Rosary, biographies of his main incarnations; and other learned works, poems, prayers and sadhanas.

Currently, Rinpoche is working on his autobiography, A Story of Human Life, Waves of the River of Distraction, and a history of Samphu Netog monastic university, which includes the biographies of Ngog Lotsawa Loden Sherab and his disciples entitled Opening the Door of Devotion.