Satya Dev Negi (aka Geshe
Lobsang Negi), Senior Lecturer, (1999) and Chair, Emory-Tibet Partnership. Geshe
Lobsang Tenzin Negi 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, he 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. In addition to teaching
at Emory, he directs Drepung Loseling Institute, which was affiliated with Emory
University in 1998.
