Lubsan Sharab Tepkin

was a Buddhist priest of Kalmyk origin who was born in the Bokshirgankan aimak in the Salsk District of the Don Cossack Host sometime in 1875.

In 1911, Lama Tepkin abdicated his position and moved to Tibet, where he would remain until the fall of 1922.

Lama Tepkin moved to Petrograd, Russia in the fall of 1922 to become a deputy Tibetan envoy and a lecturer in Mongolian and Tibetan at the Leningrad Institute of Oriental Living Languages.

He was sentenced to imprisonment without a formal trial by an NKVD tribunal.

Lama Tepkin reportedly spent the last years of his life working as a clerk on a dairy farm near Tashkent where he was last heard of in 1941.