Geshe Lobsang Dhonden is from the Drepung Loseling Monastic Gya House, which is the same house as Geshe Dhamcho -la. He was a born in Tibet in 1971 and travelled to South India in 1980.
He became a monk at the Loseling Monastery when he was 9 years old and joined the Drepung Loseling Buddhist Cultural School (DLBCS) at the end of 1980 where he studied for eight years. During this time his main subjects were; Tibetan grammar, Tibetan history, memorising ritual text and Buddhist philosophy and English. After this he continued studying Buddhist Philosophy and graduated with a Geshe Degree on the 7th August 2007. He has been a staff member of the Drepung Loseling Library Society since 1999, and is currently the administrator of the Loseling Library Society.