[3] Lieberman attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon where he majored in religion and studied pre-Biblical Canaanite languages.
[3] After college he lived in Israel for a time where he married an Israeli woman, Alicia Friedman,[2] and had a son.
[2] Upon returning to the United States, Lieberman attended Johns Hopkins University[3] and became an ophthalmologist with a focus on glaucoma[3] with a practice in San Francisco.
[2] In 1982, Lieberman met Nancy Garfield at a yoga class and she introduced him to the Buddhist community of the Bay Area.
[3] Lieberman traveled to Tibet twice a year to run mobile eye camps[7] and by 2005 had trained 20 Tibetan surgeons and restored sight to more than 2,000 people.