Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

Loten Dahortsang, one of the view Buddhist meditation teachers in Switzerland

Last Updated on April 14, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

  • Loten Dahortsang was born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1968.
  • In 1979 he went to Nepal and entered Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Kopan Monastery.
  • He has lived in the monastic institute in Rikon Switzerland since 1982.
  • He was trained by his uncle,
  • Gesche Jampa Lodro
  • Tulku Lama Lodro Rinpoche
  • the monastery’s former abbots
  • Gesche Ugyen Tseten and
  • Gesche Gedün Sangpo
  • Since 2002 he has been undergoing further training in Buddhist epistemology at the Sera Monastery University in South India
  • and since 2006 in several years of in-depth meditation and studies on the Kalachakra Tantra in the Jonang Monastery in North India.
  • He leads meditation sessions at Rikon Monastery and at Buddhist centers in Europe.

The book

“Lu Jong – The oldest Tibetan movement theory from the monks in the mountains”

by Tulku Lama Lobsang, O.W. Barth Verlag was designed and translated by him.