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Lama Yeshe teaching in the gompa (shrineroom) at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974. Photo by Ursula Bernis.

(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

(15485_pr.psd) In April of 1974, H. H. Zong Rinpoche, a senior lama and teacher for Lama Yeshe, visited Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in time to give teachings during the last week of the Sixth Meditation Course. Photo includes Lama Yeshe on the left.

(15484_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Lhundrup, and Lama Pasang with new monastics including Nick Ribush and Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst) in the gompa (shrineroom) at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974.

(15477_ng.psd) In April of 1974, H. H. Zong Rinpoche, a senior lama and teacher for Lama Yeshe, visited Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in time to give teachings during the last week of the Sixth Meditation Course.

(15476_ng.psd) In April of 1974, H. H. Zong Rinpoche, a senior lama and teacher for Lama Yeshe, visited Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in time to give teachings during the last week of the Sixth Meditation Course. Photo includes Lama Yeshe on the right.

(15475_ng.psd) In April of 1974, H. H. Zong Rinpoche, a senior lama and teacher for Lama Yeshe, visited Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in time to give teachings during the last week of the Sixth Meditation Course. Photo includes Lama Yeshe on the right.

(15474_ng.psd) In April of 1974, H. H. Zong Rinpoche, a senior lama and teacher for Lama Yeshe, visited Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in time to give teachings during the last week of the Sixth Meditation Course.

(15473_ng.psd) In April of 1974, H. H. Zong Rinpoche, a senior lama and teacher for Lama Yeshe, visited Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in time to give teachings during the last week of the Sixth Meditation Course. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is leading the procession at the left.

(15472_ng-3.psd) In April of 1974, H. H. Zong Rinpoche, a senior lama and teacher for Lama Yeshe, visited Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in time to give teachings during the last week of the Sixth Meditation Course. Lama Yeshe bowing, Lama Zopa Rinpoche is on the far right.

(15471_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Lhundrup, and Lama Pasang with new monastics including Nick Ribush and Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst) in the gompa (shrineroom) at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1974.

(15223_pr-3.jpg) Olivia de Haulleville, an old friend of Zina Rachevsky, with her son Michael Cassapidis and Zina's dautghter Rhea, Kopan, 1970.

(15222_ng-3.psd) Lama Yeshe and Chowkidhar, possibly 1978. 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.

(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.

(15214_ng-3.psd) Lama Yeshe on the hill above Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1972.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(15195_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe teaching, Fourth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1973. Photo by Lynda Millspaugh.

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.

(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.)

(15176_pr.psd) Trulshik Rinpoche, whom Zina Rachevsky had met on several occasions, gave permission for her to come to his monastery (Thubten Choling, in the lower Solu region of Solu Khumbu near Junbesi, Nepal) to do intensive retreat in 1972. (Photo used with permission of the estate of Zina Rachevsky.)

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