Samding Dorje Phagmo Lati Rinpoche (1922 – 12 April 2010) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk who was identified as a reincarnation of an earlier practitioner.
[citation needed] At the age of fifteen, he enrolled in Gaden Shartse Norling College, one of the 'great three' Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet.
In 1960, Lati Rinpoche joined the tantric college in Lhasa, and started intensive study in Tantra.
[citation needed] In 1964, Lati Rinpoche left Tibet to join the 14th Dalai Lama in exile.
[citation needed] From 1976, Lati Rinpoche taught at the Namgyal Gomba (the 14th Dalai Lama's personal monastery).