Lama Migmar Tseten was born in Tibet in 1956. In 1980, he received the acharya degree from the Tibetan Institute at Varanasi, India, where he was recognized for academic achievement by the Dalai Lama. In addition to his roles as Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University and director of the Sakya Institute of Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lama Migmar has also served as the head of the Sakya Main Monastery in Puruwala, India, and Sakya Center in Rajpur, India, and directs the Sakya Retreat Center in Barre, Massachusetts. He supervised the editing of many rare volumes of Sakya literature.