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(15180_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the veranda at Tushita Retreat Center, 1973. In 1972, along with a few of their Western students, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa bought an old colonial house on a hill above McLeod Ganj (in Dharamsala, India), and there founded Tushita Retreat Centre. (It was later renamed Tushita Meditation Centre.) Tushita means 'The Place of Joy', the pure land of the coming Buddha Maitreya.