Geshe
Lobsang Tenzin was born in Kinnaur, a small Himalayan
kingdom adjoining Tibet. At the age of 14 he received
his ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and began
training at the Buddhist School of Dialectics, the private
school of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala for
seven years.
In
1985, Geshe Lobsang entered the Drepung Loseling Monastic
College to continue his training in Southern India. In
1991, he was sent to Atlanta by the Monastery to establish
and oversee the development of Drepung Loseling Institute
that serves as the North American seat of Drepung Loseling
Monastery. In 1994, he was awarded the degree of Geshe
Lharampa, the highest degree of learning in Tibetan Buddhism,
from Drepung Loseling Monastery.
Geshe
Lobsang received his Ph.D. from Emory's Graduate Institute
for the Liberal Arts in 1999. His dissertation centered
on traditional Buddhist and contemporary Western approaches
to emotions and their impact on health. He serves as Spiritual
Director of Drepung Loseling Institute and teaches as
a senior lecturer at Emory University, where he continues
to engage in on-going research on mind/body medicine and
the function of meditation in promoting health and well-being.
