Samten Chhosphel
earned his PhD from CIHTS in India where he served as the head of Publication Dept. for 26 years. He has a Master’s degree in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College, Boston. Currently he is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, and Language Associate in Columbia University, NY.
Helmut Eimer and Pema Tsering. 1982. "A List of Abbots of Kah-thog Monastery According to Handwritten Notes by the Late Katok Ontul."Journal of the Tibet Society, pp. 11-14.
'Jam dbyangs rgyal mtshan. 1996.Rgyal ba kaH thog pa’i lo rgyus mdor bsdus.Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, pp. 129-131.
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