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(15221_sl-3.jpg) Lama Yeshe and Chowkidhar, ca1978. Chowkidhar was elderly Nepalese man and devout Hindu who lived with his wife in a mud hut at the foot of Kopan Hill, Kopan Monastery. They owned one cow. Everyone called him Chowkidhar, the Nepali word for “caretaker.” Chowkidhar became Lama Yeshe’s life-long friend.