In 1956 Kyabje Lati Rinpoche was awarded the Geshe Lharampa. The following year, he joined Gyuto Tantric College in Lhasa where he undertook the study and intensive training of Tantra. During this period he also served as tutor to many young reincarnate masters and gave numerous public teachings.

In 1959, due to the communist occupation of Tibet, Kyabje Lati Rinpoche followed His Holiness the Dalai Lama into exile in India. He lived in Dharamsala where he mostly taught students at Namgyal Monastery as well as other interested monks and laypersons. In 1976 he was invited to the United States to teach on a wide range of Buddhist subjects at the University of Virginia and other centers of higher learning.

After teaching in the United States for over one year, he returned to India where he was appointed Abbot of Ganden Shartse Monastery, reestablished in South India. He served successfully in that post for eight years.

Author of several books on Tibetan Buddhism, Kyabje Lati Rinpoche continues a rigorous teaching schedule at Ganden Monastery where he has been appointed tutor to many of the young Rinpoches by His Holiness the Dalai.