Lobsang Norbu Shastri-la

Lobsang Norbu Shastri-la (Genla) is the head of the translation department at the Central Insititute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath India. A learned scholar and master of Sanskrit, he traveled to the Pioneer Valley to teach courses at Hampshire College and Smith College in the Spring of 2007. He taught:


 * Colloquium: Comparative Indian Philosophy PHI-265 S at Smith College, and
 * Introduction to Tibetan Religions HACU-143

Genla is a continuing force and coordinator of Jay L. Garfield's Tibetan Studies in India Program, run through Smith College. The fifteenth anniversary of this program in January of 2007 prompted a visit from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to Smith College in May 2007. Genla was in the welcoming committee for His Holiness.