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(15071_ng-2.psd) Max Mathews and her Volkswagen outside Eden Hash Shop in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1970. Another nearby hot spot was a cafe called The Blue Tibetan where Lama Yeshe sometimes went for tea and to practice his hippie English.

(22036_pr.tif) Sangha photo after the cremation of Lama Yeshe at Vajrapani Institute, California in March of 1984. Photo includes, Robina Courtin, Peter Kedge, Max Mathews, Anila Ann, Helly Pelaez aka Jampa Chokyi (aka Jamyang Wangmo), Nick Ribush, Pelgye, Harry Sutton, Bob Alcorn and Wendy Finster. Photo by Jeff Nye.

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(16779_pr.psd) A Mount Everest Center novice, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. 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.

(16778_pr.psd) Thubten Lodro, a Mount Everest Center novice, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. 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.

(16777_pr.psd) Thubten Monlam, a Mount Everest Center novice, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. 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.

16776_pr-2.JPG) Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Jhampa Zangpo (Mark Shaneman) at Chenrezig Institute, 1976.

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(16705_ng.psd) Group photo at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, 1976. Included in the photo are Charlie Topp, Tony Duff, Jhampa Zangpo (Mark Shaneman), Garrey Foulkes, and Adele Hulse.

(15926_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe dancing/debating on the beach after the month-long course at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, 1975. Photo by Anila Ann.

(15924_sl.psd) Lama Yeshe dancing/debating on the beach after the month-long course at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, 1975. Photo by Anila Ann.

(15910_ng.psd) Portrait of Lama Yeshe during the month-long course at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, 1975.

(15855_ng.tif) Nick Ribush, Lama Zopa Rinpoche's assistant for the Seventh Kopan Course, giving an introductory lecture to the new students, Kopan, November 1974.

(15486_pr.psd) Photo of Steve's Tower. An American student, Steve Malasky (Now Steve Pearl), built a Tibetan tower at one end of the Kopan land which came to be known as "Steve's Tower". Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974

(15478_sl.tif) Lama Yeshe attending the Kalachakra empowerment in Bodhgaya, India, 1974.

(15207_sl.psd) Mount Everest Centre novice monks picking up rocks at Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973.

(15206_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe on the road to Lawudo Retreat Centre, Nepal, 1973.

(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.

(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.

15082_ud..psd) Portrait of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the Lawudo Lama, in 1970.

(15070_pr-1.psd) Lama Yeshe with students in an A-frame cabin at Tushita Meditation Center, Dharamsala, India, 1970.

(15063_pr-2.psd) Lama Yeshe with Max Mathews on holiday in Srinagar, Kashmir, 1970. Photo by Domo Geshe Rinpoche who also accompanied them.

(15062_pr-2.psd) Age (pronounced Oh-wa) Delbanco, a Danish hippie and spiritual seeker who was given the nickname Babaji, and who became an early student of the Lamas. Photo from 1970.

(15047_sl-1.psd) Max Mathews (left) and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Photo from the first trek to Lawudo Retreat Center in Nepal, spring of 1969. Lawudo was the hermitage of the Lawudo Lama, the former incarnation of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

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