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Satya Dev Negi (aka Geshe Lobsang Negi), Senior Lecturer, (1999) and Director, Emory-Tibet Partnership. Dr. Negi is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religion and Director of the Emory-Tibet Partnership. He serves as Co-Director of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative and Co-Director of the Emory Collaborative of Contemplative Studies. In addition, he has contributed to the development of a number of programs linking Emory University with Tibetan institutions of higher learning in India. His career has focused on the potential of mind to affect well-being on physical, emotional and mental levels and is now centered in three areas: Clinical research on the behavioral, immune and stress impacts of contemplative practices; Developing and implementing a science curriculum for Tibetan monastics; and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism both at Emory University and Atlanta's Drepung Loseling.

Born in Kinnaur, a small Himalayan kingdom adjoining Tibet, Geshe Lobsang was chosen at age 14 to study at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, the private school of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. In 1985 he entered Drepung Loseling Monastery in Karnataka, Southern India, to continue his studies, and in 1994 he received the Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest level of learning in Tibetan Buddhism. At the suggestion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Lobsang also completed a Ph.D. at the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University. In 1991 Geshe Lobsang established Drepung Loseling, the North American seat of Drepung Loseling Monastery, and continues to serve as its president and spiritual director. Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. has grown to become one of North America's leading centers for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism, and offers courses by the most highly respected scholars of that tradition. Geshe Lobsang is regularly invited to lecture on Tibetan Buddhism and on mind-body interactions, and is a frequent participant in interfaith dialogues.