Josh’s parents, Simon Lee and Annie Wong, first met Rinpoche in the late 1980s, and his whole family became Rinpoche’s students in the early 1990s.

In 2013, Josh was appointed to the board of Siddhartha’s Intent Hong Kong as a director and contact person, in the same year he also began assisting with the Chinese data for Khyentse Foundation and he was responsible for Chinese mailings for the Siddhartha’s Intent International Chinese translation team. He was nominated as a member of the SI Global committee in 2023.