Venerable Khen Rinpoche Lobsang Jamyang (click on picture
to enlarge) was born near Lithang (Eastern Tibet) in 1933. He attended
Sera May College of Sera Monastic University in Lhasa. After the Chinese
invasion of Tibet in 1959, he followed His Holiness the Dalai Lama
into exile and continued his studies in the same University, then
re-established in South India, in Karnataka state. There he received
the coveted degree of Geshe Lharampa, the equivalent of a ph.d in
buddhist philosophy. He is also an honoured graduate of Gyudme Tantric
College. In 1996, he was appointed by the Dalai Lama to be the Abbot
of Sera May Monastery. The same year, he founded Manjushri Buddhist
Center in Longueuil.