Khenchen Pema Sherab is the senior Khenpo (professor of Buddhist studies) at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute in southern India. For more than 25 years, he has taught both monastic and lay students the view, meditation, conduct, and fruition of the Nyingma lineage.

 

Born in eastern Tibet in 1936, Khenchen was an enthusiastic student form an early age. After fleeing to India in 1959, he received many teachings in India from His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, as well as empowerments and teachings from H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche, H.H. Penor Rinpoche, and H.H. Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche.

 

Khenchen Pema Sherab has written several books on Buddhist philosophy and logic and a biography of Guru Padmasambhava. Considered one of the most erudite professors of the entire Nyingma lineage, Khenchen manages the Ngagyur Nyingma Institute with great compassion and unfathomable kindness.

 

Khenchen visited  Virginia from August 18th-24th and gave teachings on the most popular Mahayana text - The Heart Sutra. Khenchen also taught Refuge and Bodhicitta