Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi is the founder and director of
Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. and a Senior Lecturer in Emory
University’s Department of Religion. He also serves as Director of
the Emory-Tibet Partnership, a multi-dimensional initiative
founded in 1998 to bring together Western scholastic tradition
and Tibetan Buddhist sciences. In this capacity, he serves as
Co-Director of both the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative and the
Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies. He also
developed Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), a
compassion meditation program that is currently utilized in a
number of research studies, including an NIH-funded study
examining the efficacy of compassion meditation on the
experience of depression. Dr. Negi, a former monk, began his
monastic training at The Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, the
private school of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He continued his
education at Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India, where
he received his Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest academic
degree granted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, in 1994. Dr. Negi
completed his Ph.D. at Emory University in 1999; his
interdisciplinary dissertation centered on traditional Buddhist and
contemporary Western approaches to emotions and their impact
on wellness.
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