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Institute of Buddhist Dialectics enthrone first lama

By Lobsang Wangyal | Tibet Sun

The first incarnation of Tsenyi Khentrul Rinpoche was enthroned at the Tsuglakhang temple in Mcleod Ganj, India, on 6 April 2009. The Dalai Lama recognised the new incarnation in 2006. The nine-year-old new lama was born Tenzin Tsetan in Ladakh in May 2001.Tibet Sun/Lobsang Wangyal/India

The first reincarnation of the slain Geshe Lobsang Gyatso, Tsenyi Khentrul Rinpoche, was enthroned today at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD).

The nine-year-old Tenzin Tseten, who hails from Ladakh, was born to Tsering Gyaltsen and Kelsang Yangki in May 2001.

The Dalai Lama recognised the reincarnation in 2006.

Geshe Lobsang Gyatso, the founder of IBD, was murdered at his residence in Mcleod Ganj in February 1997. Two of his students were also murdered the same time. Gyatso was a close aide of the Dalai Lama, and defended the Dalai Lama’s position of not to worship the spirit Dorje Shugden.

The Tibetan government-in-exile suspected Dorje Shugden practitioners to be behind the killings. The assassins are still absconding.

Lobsang Gyatso was born in Kham, eastern Tibet, in 1928. He became monk at the age of 11 and studied at Drepung monastery in Lhasa.

Following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959, he fled in to exile in India, and founded IBD in Mcleod Ganj, India, in 1973, and the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, India, in 1991.

The officials of the Tibetan government-in-exile, NGO leaders and a large public gathered for the enthronement celebration.

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