Lati Rinpoche

Khensur Kyabje Lati Rinpoche , also Lati Rinbochay (* 1922 in the Kham region , Eastern Tibet ; † April 2, 2010 in Dharamsala , India ) was a Tibetan Lama .

Life

At the age of 10, he was identified by Gongkar Rinpoche as the reincarnation of a great scholar and began his life as a monk. At fifteen he entered the Gaden Schartse Norling School , one of the three Gelug universities in Tibet. In 1959 he received the title Geshe Lharampa through his examination and began studying Tantra in Lhasa in 1960 .

In 1964, Lati Rinpoche followed the 14th Dalai Lama into exile in India. There he became an advisor to the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. Since 1976 he has taught at the Dalai Lama's monastery, Namgyal Gomba . In the same year he was appointed abbot of the Gaden School in exile in Dharamsala. Here he also died in 2010.

Publications

• Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism / Tsong Ka-pa, with Kensur Lekden's Meditations of a Tantric Abbot, edited and translated by Jeffrey Hopkins . Co-editor for Tsong Ka-pa's text: Lati Rinbochay. Associate Editor for Kensur Lekden's Text: Barbara Frye . Valois, New York State, USA 1980, ISBN 0-937938-04-1 .
• Mind in Tibetan Buddhism: Oral Commentary on Ge-shay Jam-bel-sam-pel's Presentation of Awareness and Knowledge, Composite of all the Important Points, Opener of the Eye of New Intelligence , translated and with an introduction by Elizabeth Napper . Rider, London 1980, ISBN 0-09-143251-0 .
• Lati Rinpoche and Jeffrey Hopkins, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama: Steps to Immortality; Death, intermediate state and rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism . Diederichs Yellow Series No. 41.Diederichs, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-424-00741-2 .
• Meditaive Studies and Tibetan Buddhism , edited and annotated by Leah Zahler. Wisdom Publications, Boston MA 1997, ISBN 0-86171-119-X .