Background
Lubsan Tepkin was born to Dandun Tepkin, a horsebreeder and a member of a prominent family.
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He joined the Kalmyk clergy at a young age and became Baksha of the khurul in his native aimak by the age of 28 in 1903. In so doing, Lama Tepkin replaced Menko Bormanzhinov who became Lama of the Don Kalmyks. 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.
Lama Tepkin held the position of Šajin Lama until his arrest by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs in 1931. He was sentenced to imprisonment without a formal trial by an People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs 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.
