Drepung Loseling Teachers  
     
 

The great strength of Drepung Loseling Monastery is the quality of its teachers. Among Buddhist study centers in the West, we are virtually unique in having multiple teachers in residence throughout the year who hold the qualification of the Geshe degree, the highest degree of learning awarded in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Our visiting teachers are among the most highly respected of the Geluk tradition. The Monastery has also had the rare honor of hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama twice, and will host His Holiness for a third time in October of 2007.

  
     
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama

We have had the rare honor of hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama twice in Atlanta, and are pleased to have the honor of hosting His Holiness again in October, 2007 in conjunction with Emory University. The full program of His Holiness’s upcoming visit is currently being planned; please check back for updates.

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  Teachers in Residence  
 
 
     
 
 
Geshe Lobsang Tenzin

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin is the president and spiritual director of Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. He has taught courses since the center’s inception in 1991 and continues to oversee its activities and development. Geshe Lobsang holds both a Geshe Lharampa degree from Drepung Loseling Monastery in India and a Ph.D. from Emory University’s Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts. In addition to teaching, he is engaged in research on mind/body medicine and the connections between meditation, the emotions, and health.

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Geshe Lhabu Dhondup

Geshe Lhabu Dhondup is our senior resident teacher for 2006. He was born in Tehor, eastern Tibet, in 1937. At age 17 he entered Drepung Loseling Monastery in Lhasa. In 1959 he went into exile in India and continued his training at the re-established Drepung Loseling Monastery, where he received his Geshe Lharam degree in 1989. Geshe Lhabu-la is a skilled teacher with extensive experience in teaching Buddhist philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics. Over the past year he has taught on chapter six of Shantideva’s “Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life,” “Cognition and Awareness (Lorig),” “Exposition of Buddhist Tenets” and the Foundation Series.

  
     
 
 
     
 
See also:

• Distinguished Visiting Teachers

• Past Resident Teachers

• Western Teachers & Scholars

• Tibetan Medical Doctors
 
     
 
 
     
     
 
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