By Phurbu Thinley
Dharamsala, April 7: A nine-year-old boy recongnised as Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche was on Monday formally enthroned as the reincarnation of late Geshe Lobsang Gyatso by the Dharamsala-based Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD).
Late Geshe Lobsang Gyatso, who founded the IBD and the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, also in Dharamsala, was assassinated by a group of assailants allegedly affiliated to Dhoegyal or, Dorjee Shugden Devotee’s Charitable and Religious Society.
Senior officials of the Central Tibetan Administration and, representatives from various monasteries and NGOs attended the religious coronation ceremony at the Main Tibetan Temple (Tsuglagkhang).
Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche was born on 14 May 2001 in Ladakh to Tsering Gyaltsen and Kesang Yangkyi, who were also present during the enthronement.
Tenzin Tseten was recognised by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the new reincarnation of late Geshe Lobsang Gyatso on 1 February 2006.
According to IBD’s website, the late Geshe was born in 1928 in a small village in eastern Tibet. He was ordained at the age of eleven, and later traveled to central Tibet to study at Drepung Monastery. Fleeing Tibet in 1959, he founded the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
“The founding of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and College for Higher Tibetan Studies Sarah is the work for which Lobsang Gyatso will be best remembered,” the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics mentioned in its website.
The institute described the late Geshe as a “Tibetan patriot,” “fearless social critic and a deeply spiritual man.”
