Samten Chhosphel
is an independent scholar with PhD from the Central University of Tibetan Studies (CUTS) at Sarnath, Varanasi, India. He has a Master’s degree in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, Boston, MA. After serving as the In-charge of Publication Department of CUTS for 26 years, he immigrated to the United States in 2009 and is currently an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, and Language Associate in Columbia University.
'Jam dbyangs rgyal mtshan. 1996. Rgyal ba kaH thog pa'i lo rgyus mdor bsdus. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, pp. 106-107.
Helmut Eimer & Pema Tsering. 1981. "A List of Abbots of Ka-thog Monastery According to Handwritten Notes by the Late Katok Ontul." Journal of the Tibet Society, vol. 1, p. 13.
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