Lobsang Gyatso (1928–1997) was a Tibetan monk who founded the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in

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, India.

Biography

Lobsang Gyatso was born in

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in the area of

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in 1928. He became monk at the age of 11 and studied at Drepung monastery. During the

1959 Tibetan uprising The 1959 Tibetan uprising (also known by other names) began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China since the Seventeen Point Agreemen ...

he fled Tibet as part of the Tibetan Exile Community in India. He founded in 1973 the

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and in 1991 the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, two non-profit educational institutions. He is the author of several books in Tibetan that were translated in several languages.

Death

On February 4, 1997, the principal of the Buddhist School of Dialectics, Geshe Lobsang Gyatso was murdered in Dharmasala, along with two of his students. David Kay notes "The subsequent investigation by the Indian police linked the murders to the Dorje Shugden faction of the exiled Tibetan community." In June 2007,

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reported that Interpol had issued a Red notice to China for extraditing two of the alleged killers, Lobsang Chodak and Tenzin Chozin. Robert Thurman notes that the alleged killers had their origin within China as well.''The Dalai Lama And The Cult Of Dolgyal Shugden''
retrieved Mar. 5, 2014.

Relation to Shugden practitioners

Prithvi Raj (PR), Chief Police of Kangra District said: "We have identified two of the murderers, and we have clear indications that the murderers are directly linked to the Dorje Shugden association and directly connecting these murderers with the case. But so far we have not been able to arrest them. One is called Tenzin Chozin, the other is called Lobsang Chodrak. Before the murder, the principal received threatening letters from the Shugden association."

Reincarnation

In 2006, a nine-year-old boy named Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche was said to be the

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of Lobsang Gyatso by the

14th Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: ''bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho''); né Lhamo Thondup), known as ...

.Nine-year-old enthroned as reincarnation of Buddhist monk
Sindh Today. April 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-10

Bibliography of Lobsang Gyatso

*''The Four Noble Truths'', Snow Lion Publications, 1994, *''Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment'', Snow Lion Publications, 1997, *''Memoirs of a Tibetan Lama'', Snow Lion Publications, 1998, *''Harmony of Emptiness and Dependent-Arising'', Paljor Publications, ( LTWA) India, 1992,

References

External links

Article and Photos of the dead and injured on Dalai Lama's site
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Tibetan Murder Mystery
par Ted Kerasote
Speech given by Geshe Helmut Gassner, translator to the Dalai Lama, see page 7
by the Dorje Shugden Society {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyatso, Lobsang Tibetan writers Gelug Lamas 1928 births 1997 deaths Tibetan Buddhists from Tibet 20th-century Tibetan people 20th-century lamas Buddhist monks from Tibet 20th-century Buddhist monks