Biography

Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam Dr. Chok Tenzin Monlam is an accomplished teacher who has dedicated his career to the continuance of Tibetan Buddhist culture and language in modern society. A practicing academic, teacher, and healer, he teaches a wide range of modalities, from Tibetan language to Tibetan yoga, meditation, and Buddhist science and philosophy.
 

Ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he studied and practiced as a Tibetan monk for ten years. Having advanced his studies through institutions for two decades, Dr. Chok has obtained multiple degrees in Buddhist and Tibetan studies, including his PhD from the University of Delhi. He has studied and trained for decades in Buddhist studies, Tibetan yoga, healing, and meditation under the direction of many teachers of the major and minor Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He served as the Head of the Research and Translation Department at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala for 13 years, until he relocated to the United States in 2019.
 

Dr. Chok has done Chöd ceremonies in cemeteries across Kathmandu and India; across the United States, including the Tibet Center in Chicago, the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, the Brazilian Libary, and the Brooklyn Public Library as part of the Open Air University series. He has completed the three-month Chöd retreat in Sankhu, Nepal, receiving
the Chöd empowerment and oral transmission from Lama Chödrak (Forest Lama). He has received the oral transmissions from the late Lama Wangdue (Nepal, Portland) and Lama Jigme (Tso Pema, India) and learned how to perform the Chöd ritual from Chödpa Kunsang Dorgee (Khandro Labdon Shije Chöd Institute, Nepal).