Institute of Buddhist Dialectics Enthrones Boy as Reincarnation of its FounderMonday, 6 April 2009, 6:18 p.m.

Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche sits on the throne during his enthronement as the reincarnation of venerable Lobsang Gyatso, the founder of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, at a ceremony in Dharamsala, on 6 April 2009/Photos:Sangey Kyab

Dharamshala: The nine-year-old Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche was today enthroned as the reincarnation of late Geshe Lobsang Gyatso, the founder of the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics (IBD) and the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, at a formal ceremony in Dharamshala.

Senior officials of the Central Tibetan Administration offer scarves to    Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche during the ceremony

A battery of senior officials of the Central Tibetan Administration, including the supreme justice commissioner, Penpa Tsering, speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile and members of the Kashag attended the coronation ceremony at Tsuglagkhang, the main temple. The representatives from various monasteries and NGOs were also present at the occasion.Tulku Tsenyi Khentrul Tenzin Tseten Rinpoche was born on 14 May 2001 in Ladakh to Tsering Gyaltsen and Kesang Yangkyi.He was recognised by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of late Geshe Lobsang Gyatso on 1 February 2006.The late venerable Lobsang Gyatso 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.

Late Ven. Rev Lobsang Gyatso,1928-1997

“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 IBD evolved under his guidance into a diverse institution defined only by the wish to properly educate Tibetan youth in exile. A Tibetan patriot and unswerving follower of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the late venerable Lobsang Gyatso emerges as fearless social critic, and a deeply spiritual man. He was assassinated by a group of assailants at his residence in February 1997.