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(15173_pr.psd) Zina Rachevsky absorbed in her studies, 1972. Zina was an eccentric Russian-American socialite, the child of a Russian expat father and a German-Jewish mother, who became the Lamas' first Western student in 1966, and who insisted that the Lamas start to teach courses on Buddhism for Westerners. She helped the Lamas found what would later come to be known as Kopan Monastery in Nepal. (Photo used with permission of the estate of Zina Rachevsky.)

(15089_ng.psd) Second Kopan Meditation Course, spring of 1972. Included in the photo from the left are Ann McNeil (Anila Ann), Mark Shaneman (Jhampa Zangpo), Steve Malasky, Gen Wangyal, Age Delbanco (Babaji), Peter Kedge, Geshe Thubten Tashi (seated), Losang Nyima.

(15147_ng.psd) Second Kopan Meditation Course, spring of 1972. Included in the photo from the left are Losang Nyima, Geshe Thubten Tashi (seated), Mark Shaneman (Jhampa Zangpo), Gen Wangyal.

(15148_ng.psd) Ann McNeil (Anila Ann) under a tree on "astrologer's hill", Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1972. Anila Ann was an early student of the Lamas and one of the first western women to ordain as a nun.

(15149_ng.tif) Lama Zopa Rinpoche posing in a tree, Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal,1972

(15150_ng.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche posing with the first five novice monks admitted to the Mount Everest Center for Buddhist Studies (MEC), the school founded at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1972.

(15151_ng.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe with an unidentified monk in a tent at the Lawudo Retreat Centre, 1972

(15152_ng.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe with an unidentified monk in a tent at the Lawudo Retreat Centre, 1972

(15174_pr.psd) At the Lawudo Lama's cave, Nepal, 1972. From the left to right: unknown monk, Lama Zopa, Massimo Corona, Lama Yeshe, Jhampa Zangpo, with two new Mount Everest Centre novice monks.

(12031_pr-3.psd) At the Lawudo Lama's cave, Nepal, 1972. From the left to right: unknown monk, Lama Zopa, Lama Yeshe, Jhampa Zangpo (Mark Shaneman).

(15169_sl.psd) Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal,1972. Lawudo was the hermitage of the Lawudo Lama, the former incarnation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

(15153_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe leading a Dharma celebration at Kopan along with the Mount Everest Center students, 1972.

(15154_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe leading a Dharma celebration at Kopan along with the Mount Everest Center students, 1972.

(15155_ng.psd) Raising the prayer flag pole at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1972. In attendance are some Mount Everest Center monks and students from the third Kopan course. Nick Ribush, an early student of the Lamas, is at the front right.

(15157_ng.psd) Mount Everest Centre students having lunch at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1972.

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