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 Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche is one of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche's senior Khenpos. He teaches the senior students at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute, the site of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche’s Palyul Shedra (university) program in India. He is responsible for starting Palyul Centers on behalf of H.H. Penor Rinpoche throughout the West. He teaches at His Holiness’ Palyul Retreat Center near Binghamton, New York, and elsewhere around the country. Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche teaches with humor and compassion, in excellent English.
Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche’s teachings can be found on the Meeting and Entering the Path, The Dharma Path and Its Logic, Deepening on the Dharma Path, Karma, Cause, and Effect, Guru Yoga, Devotion, and View, Self-Honesty and Pure Intention, Free Downloads, Mugsang Kuchen Rinpoche and The Nature of Your Mind pages on this site.
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 Khenpo Tenzin Norgay was born in Bhutan and like Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche above, was trained at Ngagyur Nyingma Institute in the Palyul lineage. In 1998, he was formally bestowed the title of Khenpo by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche. Because of his knowledge and fluent command of the English language, as well as his warmth and sense of humor, Khenpo has touched the hearts of many Western students. Also because of this, His Holiness Penor Rinpoche asked Khenpo Tenzin Norgay to live in the U.S. and teach the Dharma to Western students.
Khenpo Tenzin Norgay’s teachings can be found on the Meeting and Entering the Path,
Compassion and Bodhicitta, The Faults of Cyclic Existence,
Karma, Cause and Effect, The Nature of Your Mind, Taking Refuge & Vows,
Vajrayana Practices, Ngöndro, Prajnaparamita, and Free Downloads pages on this site.
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 Ven. Khenchen Palden Rinpoche began his intensive monastic training at the age of six at Gochen Monastery. So strong was his desire to study and learn that he would sneak outdoors after curfew and into the shrubberies to read his books under the moonlight. At age 12, he entered Riwoche Monastery, one of the oldest and largest monastic institutes in eastern Tibet and famous for its philosophers and logicians. There he was trained to become the next Abbot of Gochen. He completed his studies just as the Chinese invasion reached the area. So in 1960 Rinpoche and his family were forced into exile, escaping to India. Eventually in 1967, he was appointed head of the Nyingmapa Department of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath. He held this position for 17 years, as an abbot, dedicating all his time and energy to ensure the survival and spread of the Buddhist teaching.
Ven. Khenchen Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche was born in the same mountain region as his brother, Khenchen Palden Rinpoche. Soon after his birth he was recognized as a Tulku, the reincarnation of the Venerable Sherab Khyentse Rinpoche, a renowned Abbot of Gochen Monastery. Beginning his education at the age of five, Khenchen Tsewang Rinpoche entered Gochen Monastery; however, his studies were interrupted by the occupation and he escaped to India with his family. In the early 1960s, Rinpoche traveled to northern India to attend Tso Pema, Rewalsar, a Nyingma monastic school close to one of the holy lakes of Guru Padmasambhava. In 1967, he went to Sanskrit University where he received BA and MA degrees in Buddhist studies. Then in 1978, he was enthroned by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche as Abbot of the Wishfulfilling Nyingmapa Institute of Kathmandu, Nepal. He was later appointed Head Abbott of the Institute's Department of Dharma Studies.
These two scholarly brothers (also known as the Khenchen Rinpoches) made their first trip to America in 1980, and in 1982 moved to New York to work closely with His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. In 1985, the Khenchen Rinpoches founded Dharma Samudra, a non-profit publishing organization which began by publishing a Tibetan edition of 11 volumes of the hidden treasure teachings revealed by the great terton Tsasum Lingpa in the 17th century. Collectively they are the authors of several learned works. In 1989, the Khenchen Rinpoches founded Padmasambhava Buddhist Center (PBC), a non-profit organization to teach the authentic word and practices of Tibetan Nyingma Buddhism and established the first center in New York. PBC now has chapters in over 20 cities in the USA, Russia, Canada, and Puerto Rico, plus monasteries in India and at their main stateside monastery and retreat center in upstate New York.
The Khenchen Rinpoches were among the first to teach at KPC (in 1984), and have long been revered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Rinpoche and the KPC sangha. On the auspicious day of Medicine Buddha, June 19, 2010 at 8:07pm, Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche passed into parinirvana peacefully and beautifully, in the presence of his beloved brother and during his sangha’s practice of Vajrasattva.
Khenchen Palden Rinpoche’s teachings can be found on the Prajnaparamita page on this site.
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 Khenpo Sonam was born in 1965 near Paro Taktsang (Tiger's Nest cave) in Bhutan. Following his primary academy education, Khenpo Sonam spent the next thirteen years attending and completing Shedra at the Nyingma Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. At that time he began teaching both Tibetan and western students in the subjects of language and Buddhist philosophy. Following this, Khenpo Sonam returned to Bhutan to oversee the gompa (monastery) near his birthplace, Tashi Jong. Khenpo Sonam has been in residence at the Pema Osel Ling Retreat Center since 1999, but travels in North America and beyond to provide teachings to Nyingma students.
Khenpo Sonam’s teachings can be found on The Dharma Path & Its Logic page.
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