Last Updated on February 13, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Loten Dahortsang was born in 1968 in Lhasa, Tibet. In 1979 he went to Nepal and entered the Kopan Monastery of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Since 1982 he has lived in the monastic institute in Rikon. He was trained by his uncle, Geshe Jampa Lodro, Tulku Lama Lodro Rinpoche, the former abbots of the monastery Geshe Ugyen Tseten and Geshe Gedun Sangpo. Since 2002 he has been doing further training in Buddhist epistemology at the Sera Monastery University in South India and since 2006 in a multi-year in-depth meditation and studies on the Kalachakra Tantra in the Jonang Monastery in North India. He leads meditation sessions at Rikon Monastery and Buddhist centers in Europe. The book “Lu Jong – The oldest Tibetan movement teachings from the monks in the mountains” by Tulku Lama Lobsang, O.W. Barth Verlag was conceived and translated by him.