Khenpo Losang Tenzin
Khenpo Losang Tenzin (Loten) was born in Dege, Kham, Tibet in 1963 to a family of farmers. He went to school and helped on the farm until he was 14, then he ran away from home to make a pilgrimage and especially to visit the great monastery of Gaden in central Tibet. There he became a monk and remained for 7 months until he returned to Dege in 1978, at the repeated requests of his parents, where he studied under many teachers.

In 1985 he escaped to India to further his education, and he joined Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche’s Dzongsar Shedra in Bir, (a Sakyapa monks college in a Tibetan Colony near to Sherab Ling), where he studied for ten years under Khenchen Kunga Wangchuk Rinpoche (three of which he was Chorpon). In 1994 he was enthroned as a Khenpo at the Dzongsar Institute, and he taught there for a year during which time he was also a tutor to Mingyur Rinpoche.

In 1995 Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche and Khenchen Kunga Wangchuk Rinpoche sent Khenpo Loten to Sherab Ling at the request of the Tai Situpa, where he helped found the Sherab Ling monastic college.

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