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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.

(15193_pr.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.

(15192_pr.psd) A portrait of Lama Yeshe by Lynda Millspaugh, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973.

(15191_pr.psd) A portrait of Lama Yeshe by Lynda Millspaugh, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973.

(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.

(15186_sl-3.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche in a group photo from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, spring, 1973.

Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, 1973

(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.)

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(15069_pr-1.psd) Lama Yeshe with students in an A-frame cabin at Tushita Meditation Center, Dharamsala, India, 1970.

(13305_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.

(13303_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.

(13302_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.

(13301_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.

(13300_pr-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) during the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Brian Beresford.

(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.

(13297_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.

(13294_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.

(13293_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.

(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.

(13287_pr-2.psd) Group photos from the Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Christine Lopez.

(12810_sl-Edit.psd) Lama Yeshe teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.

Peter Kedge and Lama Yeshe, Tushita Meditation Center, 1973. “Tushita was truly a place for retreat, with Ling Rinpoche and Geshe Rabten as neighbors and other geshes engaged in retreats for years at a time living on the property itself."

(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.

(09434_sl-2.psd) Lama Yeshe teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.

(07978_ng-3.psd) Lama Yeshe, Lawudo Retreat Center, Nepal, 1973.

(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.

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