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(12906_sl-3.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche painting Tara, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Lama Yeshe sent Max Mathews to buy a large Tara statue in Kathmandu, which was eventually placed in a glass-fronted house on a pedestal overlooking a triangular pond that was built under the ancient bodhi tree in front of the gompa, Kopan Monastery, Nepal. Photo by Peter Iseli.