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Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa on the veranda at Tushita , 1973
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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.Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Tushita, 1973
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(00956_ud-3.psd) Portrait of Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, 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.Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Tushita, 1973
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(00961_ud-3.psd) Portrait of Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, 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.Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Tushita, 1973
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(15181_pr.psd) Portrait of Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, 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.The Front Veranda at Tushita
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(15182_pr.psd) The painted front veranda at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India. Wim, a Dutch artist who had painted the walls of Lawudo Gompa in 1972, painted a mural of Guru Shakyamuni at Tushita. 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.Lama Yeshe's room, Tushita Retreat Centre
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(15183_sl.psd) Lama Yeshe's big room at Tushita Retreat Centre. A nun named Ani Jampa painted the deities on the walls. Photo by Adele Hulse taken in the mid-1980s.Lama Yeshe, Tushita, 1970
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(15070_pr-1.psd) Lama Yeshe with students in an A-frame cabin at Tushita Meditation Center, Dharamsala, India, 1970.Lama Yeshe, Kopan, 1970
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(15069_pr-1.psd) Lama Yeshe with students in an A-frame cabin at Tushita Meditation Center, Dharamsala, India, 1970.Keywords
1973, Dharamsala, India, Kathmandu, Kopan Monastery, Lama Yeshe, Nepal, TMC Tushita Meditation CentreLama with MEC students, Lawudo, 1973
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(15881_sl.tif) Lama Yeshe with the Mount Everest Center students at Lawudo Retreat Center, Nepal, October, 1973. Wim, the Dutch artist who painted murals at Tushita is standing in back row, a tall fellow with glasses a bit to the right of Lama Yeshe. Also in that row is Jampa Chökyi (Helly, Jamyang Wangmo) who is at the left, next to Rinpoche's sister Ngawang Samten.Anila Ann, Annabelle Williams Ellis, and Lama Zopa at Kopan, 197
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(15184_pr.psd) Anila Ann, Lady Amabel Williams-Ellis, age 80, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Kopan Monastery, 1973. (Annabelle was the Lamas' oldest student at this time.)Lama Yeshe at Kopan, 1973
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(15191_pr.psd) A portrait of Lama Yeshe by Lynda Millspaugh, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973.Lama Yeshe at Kopan, 1973
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(15192_pr.psd) A portrait of Lama Yeshe by Lynda Millspaugh, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973.Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching, Kopan, 1973
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(15193_pr.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.Lama Yeshe teaching, Kopan, 1973
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(09434_sl-2.psd) Lama Yeshe teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching, Kopan, 1973
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(15194_pr.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.Lama Yeshe teaching, Kopan, 1973
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(12810_sl-Edit.psd) Lama Yeshe teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.Lama Yeshe teaching, Kopan, 1973
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(15195_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.Nick and Marie, Kopan, 1973
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(16683_sl-2.psd) Nick Ribush and Marie Obst (Yeshe Khadro) at the 4th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery in Nepal, 1973. Marie is holding the second edition of Lama Zopa Rinpoches Wish-fulfilling Golden Sun. Both Nick and Marie were early students of the lamas who continue to play active and important roles in the implementation of the lamas' vision as it unfolds in the present day.Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan, 1973
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Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, 19734th Kopan Meditation Course, Spring, 1973
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(15186_sl-3.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche in a group photo from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, spring, 1973.Sam-Sara outhouse at Kopan, 1973
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(15187_pr.psd) The outhouse labeled Sam-Sara at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. A pun on the sanskrit term "samsara" which refers to the beginningless, recurring cycle of death and rebirth fraught with suffering. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.Lama Yeshe at entrance to Kopan, 1973
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(13288_pr-2.psd) Lama Yeshe at entrance to Kopan with Sister Max Mathews during Fourth Meditation Course, 1973. On the left is Bill Searle holding his son, Adam. Photo by Christine Lopez.On the road to Kopan, 1973
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(13298_pr-2.psd) Villagers carrying wood while westerners watch, road to Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. The monastery is on the hilltop to the right. Photo by Christine Lopez.Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan, 1973
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(13294_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan, 1973
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(13297_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan, 1973
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(13287_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan, 1973
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(13293_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja, 1973
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(13300_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja, 1973
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(13301_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja, 1973
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(13305_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja, 1973
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(13303_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Bea Ribush, 1973
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(01213_ud-3.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Bea Ribush during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Bea Ribush is a devoted student of the lamas who became instrumental in establishing Dharma centers in Australia.Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja, 1973
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(13302_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Bea Ribush, 1973
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(01212_ud-3.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Bea Ribush during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Bea Ribush is a devoted student of the lamas who became instrumental in establishing Dharma centers in Australia. Also seated in the photo is Lady Amabel Williams-Ellis.Lama Yeshe, 4th Kopan Meditation Course, Spring, 1973
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(15199_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe in group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal 1973Anila, Lama , Rinpoche, Lama Lhundrup, Kopan, 1973
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(15201_ng.psd) Anila Ann, Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and Lama Lhundrup in group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal,1973. The two monks on the left are from Sera Monastery, India Lama Lhundrup is on the far right.Anila, Lama and Rinpoche, Fourth Meditation Course, 1973
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(15201_ng.psd) Anila Ann, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal,1973Lama and Rinpoche, Fourth Meditation Course, 1973
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(15202_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal,1973Lama and Rinpoche, Fourth Meditation Course, 1973
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(15203_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal,1973Lama Lhundrup, Kopan, 1973
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(15204_pr-3.psd) Lama Lhundrup Rigsel at Kopan, ca 1973. He was one of Lama Yeshe's students from Buxa Duar who came to Kopan Monastery, Nepal in 1973 to help run the monastery and teach the Mount Everest Centre (MEC) children.Lama Pasang, Kopan, 1973
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(15205_pr-3.psd) Lama Pasang Tsering at Kopan, ca 1973. He was one of Lama Yeshe's students from Buxa Duar who came to Kopan Monastery, Nepal in 1973 to help run the monastery and teach the Mount Everest Centre (MEC) children.Lama Yeshe, Lawudo, 1973
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(07651_pr-2.psd) Lama Yeshe on the road to Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is in the center of this photo.Lama Yeshe, Lawudo, 1973
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(15206_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe on the road to Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973.MEC novice monks, Lawudo, 1973
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(15207_sl.psd) Mount Everest Centre novice monks picking up rocks at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973.Lama Yeshe, Lawudo, 1973
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(07626_pr-2.psd) Lama Yeshe on the road to Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973.Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lawudo, 1973
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(07629_pr-2.psd) Silhouette of Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the mountainside, Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973.Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lawudo, 1973
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(07631_pr-2.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the road to Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is on the left in the photo.Lama Yeshe meditating in Mussoorie, 1973
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(15208_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe meditating in Mussoorie, India, 1973. Sister Max (Max Matthews) rented a house in Mussoorie in the Indian Himalayas for Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche for a vacation. Photo by Max Matthews.Zina and her daughter Rhea
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(11022_ud.jpg) Zina Rachevsky and her daughter Rhea (Photo used with permission of the estate of Zina Rachevsky.)Zina's daughter Rhea, Thubten Choling, 1973
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(15209_pr.psd) Zina Rachevsky's daughter Rhea. From photos taken in the spring of 1973 while Zina Rachevsky was on a long retreat at Thubten Choling, monastery of Trulshik Rinpoche in the lower Solu region of Solu Khumbu near Junbesi, Nepal. Zina died while on this retreat in August of 1973.Zina's daughter Rhea, Thubten Choling, 1973
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(15210_pr.tif) Zina Rachevsky's daughter Rhea. From photos taken in the spring of 1973 while Zina Rachevsky was on a long retreat at Thubten Choling, monastery of Trulshik Rinpoche in the lower Solu region of Solu Khumbu near Junbesi, Nepal. Zina died while on this retreat in August of 1973.Lama, Tushita, 1973
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(00024_ud-3.jpg) Lama Yeshe, Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, 1973. Brian Beresford (photographer)Lama, Lawudo, 1973
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(07978_ng-3.psd) Lama Yeshe, Lawudo Retreat Center, Nepal, 1973.Rinpoche at fourth course, Kopan, 1973
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(16786_pr-3.psd) Rinpoche teaching during the fourth course, Kopan Monastery, 1973. Anila Ann is in the foreground.Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst), Lawudo, 1973
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(17992_pr-3.jpg) Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst), Lawudo Retreat Center, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Nick RibushPema Gyalpo (next to Rinpoche), Jhamba (in front of her), TCV, 1
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(11695_ud-3.psd) Pema Gyalpo, sister of H.H. Dalai Lama who ran TCV (next to Rinpoche), Jhamba (in front of her), Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala, India, 1973.Jhamba (right), TCV, 1973
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(11715_ud-3.psd) Lama Yeshe with Jhamba Drolkar (Lama's "daughter" at TCV) and two Nepalese boys on the front steps of Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala, India, 1973.Under the Bodhi Tree
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(20409_ng-3.jpg) H.H. Dalai Lama doing puja, Bodhgaya, 1973 Brian Beresford (photographer)The lamas with Jhamba Dolkar (center), Tribhuvan Airport, Kathma
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(32749_pr-3.psd) The lamas with Jhamba Dolkar (center), Tribhuvan Airport, Kathmandu, 1973. "Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche had recently adopted Jhamba Dolkar, a young girl whose family circumstances were so desperate that her mother had begged the lamas to take care of her. I can remember being at Kathmandu airport with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa standing on either side of me as I said good-bye to my family, Jhamba Dolkar explained."Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche with students and artists, Tus
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(18950_pr-3.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche with students and artists, Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, 1973. Wim (squatting at the front right), the Dutch artist, who had painted the walls of Lawudo Gompa the year before, arrived at Tushita and painted a mural of Guru Shakyamuni on the left front porch wall of the building, while Lawrence Greenberg (standing to the right of Rinpoche) painted the four friends on the right. Suzanne Lee is standing to the left of Lama Yeshe.Rinpoche, fifth course, Kopan, 1973
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(24376_sl-3.TIF) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the fifth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, 1973. Jeff Nye (photographer)Lama, fifth course, Kopan, 1973
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(24395_sl-3.TIF) Lama Yeshe teaching during the fifth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, 1973. Jeff Nye (photographer)The lamas arrive at Lukla, 1973
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(25191_ng-3.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche arrive at Lukla Airport, Solu Kumbhu, Nepal, 1973.Lama consecrating A-frame land, 1973
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(33716_pr-3.tif) Lama Yeshe consecrating A-frame land at Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, 1973. Pete Northend is on the right.Lama Lhundrup assisting Rinpoche's initiation
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(39253_pr-3.psd) Lama Lhundrup assisting Lama Zopa Rinpoche's initiation, Kopan Monastery, 1973. Deborah Simpson (donor)Lama and Rinpoche, Kopan rooftop, 1973
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(39254_sl-3.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche making Chenrezig tsa tsas on the rooftop at Kopan Monastery, 1973.Class with Lama Pasang, Lawudo, 1973
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(26978_pr-3.psd) Class with Lama Pasang, Lawudo Retreat Center, Nepal, 1973.MEC students at Lawudo, 1973
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Mount Everest Center students at Lawudo Retreat Center, Nepal, 1973. Lama Yeshe sent photos of the MEC students all around the world and also took photos with him on tour in an attempt to raise funds for them. "Mummy" Max Mathews had a photo taken of each of them and had a group photo made into a poster. Photo by Nick Ribush.If you have any information about this photo, please send an email to [email protected]. Thank you!