The Professor Samdhong so known Rinpoché of its laic name, Lobsang Tenzin , (born the November 5th 1939) is the Prime Minister for the Gouvernement Tibetan in exile, based with Dharamsala in India. Professor Samdhong Rinpoché was chair Parliament Tibetan in exile and director of the Central Institute of the High Studies Tibetans Sarnath (or Bénarès).

Biography

Professor Samdhong Rinpoché was born on November 5th, 1939 with the Tibet, Dêqên (Jol, in Tibetan), village of the province of Kham, and currently incorporated in the Chinese province of the Yunnan. At the 5 years age, he was recognized like the reincarnation of 4th Samdhong Rinpoché, and was established with the monastery of Gaden Dechenling with Jol. He achieved all the stages of ordination of monk and carries the title of " Bhiktchou Mahathéro". Its monastic studies, started in 1951 in Tibet at the University of Drepung, continued, after the occupation of Tibet by China, at the new monastic University of Drepung, reinstalled in India. In 1970, it obtained the diploma corresponding to the more high degree of " Guéshé" , i.e. of science doctor Buddhist, with the monastery tantric of Gyuto, reinstalled with Dalhousie in India.

Professor Samdhong Rinpoché taught the Tibetan starting from 1960 in India in the schools Tibetans of Simla then of Darjeeling. Between 1965 and 1970, it was appointed headmaster of the school Tibetan of Dalhousie. Between 1971 and 1988, it was named director at the Central Institute of the High Studies Tibetans to Bénarès in India and, between 1988 and 2001, he was the Director. Professor Samdhong Rinpoché is recognized for his scholarship on the lesson of Buddhism and the Mahatma Gandhi. He usually speaks the Tibetan, the English and the Hindi. Of 1970 with 1973, Professor Samdhong Rinpoché was also vice-president of the Congrès of Youth Tibetan.

In 1991, it was named member of the Parliament Tibetan in exile by the Dalaï Lama, and it will be elected by it president. Between 1996 and 2001, it was one of the elected members of the Parliament Tibetan representing the exiled Tibetans of the Kham.

August 20th, 2001, Professor Samdhong Rinpoché was elected Prime Minister for the Gouvernement Tibetan in exile. It was the first time that the Prime Minister was selected by the direct suffrage, following the reforms announced by the Dalaï Lama the same year.

It accommodated the April 26th 2005 a delegation of French senators with Dharamsala and an interview granted to them. July 1st 2006, Pr Samdhong Rinpoché, was re-elected Prime Minister for the Gouvernement Tibetan in exile. Following its election by the diaspora Tibetan, the Dalaï Lama officially named Professor Samdhong Rinpoché under " Kalon Tripa of 13th Kashag" for a second consecutive mandate. Meeting thereafter journalists of the media Tibetans and Indians, Samdhong Rinpoché declared that the new administration would put more efforts in the continuation of the dialog sino-Tibetan while following the center gate. This approach consists in claiming a real autonomy for the Tibet inside the Popular republic of China. The new administration already works to prepare the sixth meeting with the Chinese representatives, it declared.

Other functions of Samdhong Rinpoché

He assumed several other administrative loads at the request of the Gouvernement Tibetan in exile but also of the Indian Gouvernement:

Thus, on nomination of the Dalaï Lama, it is:

• 1. Member of the Board of directors of the Schools Tibetans (CTSA) to New Delhi.

• 2. Vice-president of Library off Tibetan Works & Files (LTWA) with Dharamsala.

On nomination of the Indian Government, it is:

• 3. Member of the Directory of the Indian Council for Philosophical Research (ICPR)

• 4. Member of the Board of directors of Asiatic Society, in Calcutta.

Professor Samdhong Rinpoché is also:

• 5. Member of the Directory of the Krishnamurti Foundation in India.

• 6. To advise in World Peace University, the United States.
• 7. Advisory member in Institute off Asian Democracy with New York.
• 8. Member of the Board of directors of the Foundation for the Universal Responsibility with New Delhi.

He is also member of the Committee having written the Constitution of Tibet (Charter of the Tibetans in exile) and of the Future Constitution of free Tibet.

Since 1994, it belonged to the Association of the Indian Universities (AIU) as a member of its Standing Committee, then Vice-Président, and it was finally elected by it President in 1998.

Moreover, Professor Samdhong Rinpoché is responsible for the whole of the publications of the Central Institute of the High Studies Tibetans. He even published to him an about sixty studies and maintenances in various university reviews and of written press.

Works of Samdhong Rinpoché

• Uncompromising Truth for has Compromised World: Tibetan Buddhism and Today' S World, Alibris, the USA, ISBN 1933316209

• Buddhist Meditation, Associated Publishers Group, 1993, ISBN 0946672016

• Interview of Samdhong Rinpoché in the Review of India

Addresses

Chairman, Kalon Tripa Cabinet off the Central Tibetan Administration P.O. DHARAMSALA - 176215 Dist. Kangra, H.P. (INDIA)

See too

Government Tibetan in exile

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