Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi is Senior Lecturer in Emory University’s Department of Religion. He also serves as Director of the Emory-Tibet Partnership, a multi-dimensional initiative founded in 1998 to bring together the foremost contributions of the Western scholastic tradition and the Tibetan Buddhist sciences of mind and healing. In that capacity, he serves as Co-Director of both the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative and the Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies. He is currently working with Emory scientists as co-principal investigator on a major clinical research project funded by the NIH that is studying the effects of compassion meditation on the experience of depression. In the summer of 2009 he inaugurated the Tibetan Mind/Body Sciences Summer Study Abroad Program with Emory biologist, Dr. Arri Eisen.