Khenpo Choying Dorjee is a distinguished Tibetan Buddhist scholar and teacher that has specialized in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy (Madhyamaka). He received his degree as Khenpo, roughly equivalent to a Western Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, in 2004. Since then, he has held several leadership positions at Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Institute, which is Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's monastic university in India. He served as Abbot for several years and initiated a number of educational innovations. He was a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and serves on the Khyentse Foundation India Program Committee.