Geshe Ngawang Samten

Basics

Geshe la was born at Panchamari, MP, India. At the age of nine, he entered the Sera Monastic Institute and took the vows of monk ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 1998 and 1999 he sat for the Geshe Lharampa (Doctorate in Buddhist Philosophy) exam, and in 1998 he was selected as a lecturer in the Gelug tradition at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath.