KHENCHEN PALDEN SHERAB RINPOCHE (1938-2010) and his brother KHENPO TSEWANG DONGYAL RINPOCHE (b. 1950) escaped their homeland of eastern Tibet in 1959, and in the mid-1980s came to New York, where they founded the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center. PBC is now a network of over twenty centers worldwide whose mission is to spread the Buddhist teachings, particularly those of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Together the Khenpos have published more than twenty-five books in English, with the aim of preserving and propagating the authentic teachings of the Nyingma lineage.