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Satya Dev Negi

Senior Lecturer (1999) and
Chair, Emory-Tibet Partnership


Office:
Callaway Center S306A

Mailing address:
Department of Religion
Emory University
Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA
537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214

Atlanta, Georgia 30322

404-712-9293 (Office)
404-727-7597 (Fax)
snegi@emory.edu (Email)

Satya Dev Negi with the Dalai Lama 

 


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.


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