Front of photo given to Connie Miller by Lama Yeshe, 1976
Description:
(16657_pr-3.psd) The front of a photo Lama Yeshe gave to Connie Miller in 1976. Connie Miller was rushed to Shanti Bhawan hospital in Kathmandu when she suffered an attack of appendicitis. Afterwards, Lama Yeshe showered her with gifts, including a picture of himself inscribed on the back in his erratic hand, "Much love, Lama Yeshe. See you space." Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1973
4th Meditation Course
Connie Miller (donor)
Lama Yeshe
signed photo
Back of photo given to Connie Miller by Lama Yeshe, 1976
Description:
(16658_pr-3.tif) The back of a photo Lama Yeshe gave to Connie Miller in 1976. Connie Miller was rushed to Shanti Bhawan hospital in Kathmandu when she suffered an attack of appendicitis. Afterwards, Lama Yeshe showered her with gifts, including a picture of himself inscribed on the back in his erratic hand, "Much love, Lama Yeshe. See you space." Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Connie Miller (donor)
Lama Yeshe
signed photo
Connie teaching the MEC students, 1976
Description:
(09645_sl.JPG) Connie Miller, an American student, arrived on Christmas Day 1975 to stay at Kopan. These photos show her teaching English to the Mount Everest Center students, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Connie Miller
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
MEC students (Mount Everest Center)
Nepal
Connie teaching the MEC students, 1976
Description:
(09757_sl.JPG) Connie Miller, an American student, arrived on Christmas Day 1975 to stay at Kopan. These photos show her teaching English to the Mount Everest Center students, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Connie Miller
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
MEC students (Mount Everest Center)
Nepal
MEC students with a baby water buffalo, 1976
Description:
(09829_sl.psd) Mount Everest Center students with a baby water buffalo, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Animals
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
MEC students (Mount Everest Centre)
Michael Losang Yeshe (Michael Cassapidis)
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche
Lama with the MEC students, 1976
Description:
(16704_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe with the Mount Everest Center students, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Michael Losang Yeshe (Michael Cassapidis) is sitting at the front left.
Keywords:
1976
Animals
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
MEC students (Mount Everest Centre)
Michael Losang Yeshe (Michael Cassapidis)
Nepal
blue (uploaded)
Rinpoche with water buffalo, 1976
Description:
(09400_sl.JPG) Lama Zopa Rinpoche with a water buffalo, Kopan Monastery, Nepal,1976.
Keywords:
1976
Animals
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
MEC students, 1976
Description:
(16767_sl.psd) Mount Everest Center students in the gompa (shrineroom), Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
MEC students (Mount Everest Center)
Nepal
gompa (meditation hall)
MEC students, 1976
Description:
(16760_sl.psd) Mount Everest Center students in the gompa (shrineroom), Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
MEC students (Mount Everest Center)
Nepal
gompa (meditation hall)
Mealtime with the MEC students, 1976
Description:
(16765_sl-3.psd) Mealtime with the Mount Everest Center students and Tsultrim Norbu, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Food/Eating
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
LYWA Collection
MEC students (Mount Everest Centre)
Nepal
Tsultrim Norbu
The kitchen at Kopan, 1976
Description:
(16766_sl.tif) The kitchen at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Kancha Tsultrim Norbu
Keywords:
1976
Food/Eating
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Nepal
MEC students distributing food, 1976
Description:
(22629_ng.tif) (16714_ng.tif) Mount Everest Center students students distributing food in the gompa (meditation hall), Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
Food/Eating
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
MEC students (Mount Everest Center)
Nepal
Lama with Yangsi Rinpoche, 1976
Description:
(16745_ng.psd) Lama Yeshe with Yangsi Rinpoche, 1976. Kelsang Puntsog Rinpoche, the son of Lama Yeshe's old friend Jampa Trinley, was later recognized to be the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, one of Lama's teachers. In January 1975 he was enthroned at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, after which occasion he became known to all as Yangsi Rinpoche.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche
Lama with Yangsi Rinpoche, 1976
Description:
(16774_pr.psd) Lama Yeshe with Yangsi Rinpoche, 1976. Kelsang Puntsog Rinpoche, the son of Lama Yeshe's old friend Jampa Trinley, was later recognized to be the reincarnation of Geshe Ngawang Gendun, one of Lama's teachers. In January 1975 he was enthroned at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, after which occasion he became known to all as Yangsi Rinpoche.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche
Geshe Legden visits Kopan, construction of Sera Je roof.
Description:
(16749_sl.TIF) Yangsi Rinpoche, Geshe Legden, and Lama Zopa Rinpoche (with Lama Lhundrup at the right) on the rooftop terrace, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1977.Before Yangsi Rinpoche and his brother, Losang Tseten, left Kopan for Sera Monastery, Geshe Ngawang Legden, the Sera Je? abbot, came to visit Kopan with some monastery officials in order to thank Lama for his large donation to the Assembly Hall fund.
Keywords:
110 Format
1977
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Legden Geshe
Lhundrup Rigsel Lama
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche
Sangha at Kopan, 1976
Description:
(16761_sl.psd) Sangha at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Front row: Bonnie Rothenberg (Konchog Donma or KD), Susie Albright, Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald), Thubten Pemo (Linda Grossman) Second row: Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst), Dieter Kratzer, John Feuille, Thubten Pende (Jim Dougherty), Adrian Feldmann (Thubten Gyatso), Jeffery Webster Back row: Nicole Couture, Thubten Yeshe (Augusta Alexander or TY), Margaret McAndrew, Thubten Wongmo (Feather Meston), Roger Kunsang, Nick Ribush, Scott Brusso, George Churinoff, Jampa Konchog (Yogi), Chris Kolb (Ngawang Chotak), Marcel Bertels.
Keywords:
1976
Adrian Feldmann (Thubten Gyatso)
Chris Kolb (Ngawang Chotak)
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Marcel Bertels
Nepal
Nick Ribush
Pende Thubten (Jim Dougherty)
Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald)
Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst)
Sangha at Kopan, 1976
Description:
(16747_sl.psd) Sangha at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Front row, from the left: Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst), Dieter Kratzer, John Feuille, Thubten Pende (Jim Dougherty), Adrian Feldmann (Thubten Gyatso), Jeffery Webster. Back row, from the left: Thubten Yeshe (Augusta Alexander or TY), Nicole Couture, Margaret McAndrew, Thubten Wongmo (Feather Meston), Nick Ribush, Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald), Scott Brusso, George Churinoff, Bonnie Rothenberg (Konchog Donma or KD), Jampa Konchog (Yogi), Thubten Pemo (Linda Grossman), Chris Kolb (Ngawang Chotak), Marcel Bertels.
Keywords:
1976
Adrian Feldmann (Thubten Gyatso)
Chris Kolb (Ngawang Chotak)
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Marcel Bertels
Nepal
Nick Ribush
Pende Thubten (Jim Dougherty)
Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald)
Yeshe Khadro (Marie Obst)
Group portrait with Jampa Trinley and family, 1976
Description:
(12742_sl-2.psd) Group portrait with Jampa Trinley and family, 1976. Photo includes Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Thubten Wongmo (Feather Meston), Daja Meston (Thubten Wangchuk), Jampa Trinley, and his wife Ngawang Trinley. Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Photo by Jon Landaw.
Keywords:
110 Format
1976
9th Meditation Course
Daja Meston (Thubten Wangchuk)
Jampa Trinley
Jon Landaw (donor-photographer)
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Yeshe
Lhundrup Rigsel Lama
Nepal
Wongmo Thubten (Feather Meston)
Yangsi Rinpoche
Group portrait with Jampa Trinley and family, 1976
Description:
(16751_sl.TIF) Group portrait with Jampa Trinley and family, 1976. Photo includes Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Thubten Wongmo (Feather Meston), Daja Meston (Thubten Wangchuk), Jampa Trinley, and his wife Ngawang Trinley. Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
110 Format
1976
9th Meditation Course
Daja Meston (Thubten Wangchuk)
Jampa Trinley
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Yeshe
Lhundrup Rigsel Lama
Nepal
Wongmo Thubten (Feather Meston)
Yangsi Rinpoche
Yangsi Rinpoche and Lama, 1976
Description:
(16775_pr.psd) Yangsi Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche
Yangsi Rinpoche and Lama, 1976
Description:
(12735_sl-2.psd) Yangsi Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe doing puja, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Photo by Jon Landaw.
Keywords:
1976
Jon Landaw (donor-photographer)
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Puja or Sadhana (Spiritual practice)
Yangsi Rinpoche
Yangsi Rinpoche and Lama, 1976
Description:
(16772_sl.psd) Yangsi Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe doing puja, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Puja or Sadhana (Spiritual practice)
Yangsi Rinpoche
gompa (meditation hall)
Lama and Rinpoche doing puja, 1976
Description:
(12736_sl-2.psd) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja (spiritual practice) with Yangsi Rinpoche and Tenzin Norbu under the tree, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Photo by Jon Landaw.
Keywords:
1976
Jon Landaw (photographer)
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Puja or Sadhana (Spiritual practice)
Tenzin Norbu (Thubten Zopa small)
Yangsi Rinpoche (Kelsang Phuntsog)
Group on steps, Kopan, 1976
Description:
(12741_sl-6.psd) Group sitting with Lama Yeshe on the monastery steps, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Photo includes Bill Kane, Harry Sutton, Dharmawati Brechbuhl, Steve Ginsburg, Roger Munroe, George Churinoff, Xavi Alongina, Bruce Heavenor, Tom and Shirley Begley, Hester Ross, and Thubten Wongmo. Jon Landaw (photographer)
Keywords:
1976
Bill Kane
Harry Sutton
Jon Landaw (photographer)
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Dieter and Rinpoche, 1976
Description:
(16381_pr-2.psd) Dieter Kratzer and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. Photo by Dan Laine.
Keywords:
1976
Dan Laine (photographer)
Dieter Kratzer
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Rinpoche doing mandala offering, 1976
Description:
(07719_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing mandala offering during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Mandala Offering
Nepal
Rinpoche teaching, 1976
Description:
(07726_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Teaching
Rinpoche teaching, 1976
Description:
(07732_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Teaching
Rinpoche teaching, 1976
Description:
(07734_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Teaching
Rinpoche teaching, 1976
Description:
(07735_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Teaching
Rinpoche teaching, 1976
Description:
(07736_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Teaching
Rinpoche teaching, 1976
Description:
(07745_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Teaching
Rinpoche teaching, 1976
Description:
(07753_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Nepal
Puja or Sadhana (Spiritual practice)
Rinpoche doing mandala offering, 1976
Description:
(07763_ng-2.psd) Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing mandala offering during the 9th Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Mandala Offering
Nepal
9th Kopan Meditation Course, Fall, 1976
Description:
(08533_ng-2.psd) Group portrait at the end of the Ninth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. To the left of Lama Yeshe is Yangsi Rinpoche, to the right of Lama Zopa Rinpoche is Lama Lhundrup and Lama Pasang.
Keywords:
110 Format
1976
9th Meditation Course
Dieter Kratzer
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Nick Ribush
Peter Kedge
Yangsi Rinpoche
9th Kopan Meditation Course, Fall, 1976
Description:
(07696_ng-2.psd) Group portrait at the end of the Ninth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. To the left of Lama Yeshe is Yangsi Rinpoche, to the right of Lama Zopa Rinpoche is Lama Lhundrup and Lama Pasang.
Keywords:
110 Format
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche
9th Kopan Meditation Course, Fall, 1976
Description:
(07698_ng-2.psd) Group portrait at the end of the Ninth Meditation Course, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976. To the left of Lama Yeshe is Yangsi Rinpoche, to the right of Lama Zopa Rinpoche is Lama Lhundrup and Lama Pasang.
Keywords:
110 Format
1976
9th Meditation Course
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche
Lama and Trijang Rinpoche, Tushita, 1976
Description:
(09327_ng-3.psd) Lama Yeshe and HH Trijang Rinpoche, Tushita Retreat Centre, Dharamsala, India, 1976. In the spring of 1976, HH Trijang Rinpoche gave both novice (getsul) and full gelong ordination vows to a group of Lama Yeshe's students at Tushita Retreat Centre.
Keywords:
126 Format
1976
Dharamsala
India
LYWA Collection
Lama Yeshe
TMC Tushita Meditation Centre
Trijang Rinpoche
Nick, Inji Gompa, Dharamsala, 1976
Description:
(18148_sl-3.jpg) Nick Ribush during the construction of the Inji Gompa, a practice place built by and for the Western monks and nuns, Dharamsala, 1976.
Keywords:
Dharamsala
India
Inji Gompa
McLeod Ganj
Nick Ribush (donor)
Chotak and Pende, California, 1976
Description:
(21673_pr-3.psd) Chris Kolb (Ngawang Chotak) and Thubten Pende (Jim Dougherty), California, 1976.
Keywords:
Chotak Ngawang (Chris Kolb)
LYWA Collection
Pende Thubten (Jim Dougherty)
Tara in the Kopan library, 1976
Description:
(26043_pr-3.psd) Tara in the library before being installed in the courtyard in front of the gompa, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
Connie Miller (donor)
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
Tara
Yangsi Rinpoche, Kopan, 1976
Description:
(39320_sl-3.jpg) Yangsi Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
LYWA Collection
Nepal
Yangsi Rinpoche (Kelsang Phuntsog)
Lama teaching MEC students, 1976
Description:
(39321_sl-3.tif) Lama Yeshe teaching Mount Everest Center students, Kopan Monastery, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
LYWA Collection
Lama Yeshe
MEC students (Mount Everest Centre)
Freda Bedi, Kopan, 1976
Description:
(39326_sl-3.jpg) Freda Bedi giving a Dharma teaching, Kopan Monastery, with Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe, 1976.
Keywords:
Freda Bedi
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche
LYWA Collection
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Finishing touches, Inji Gompa
Description:
(39329_sl-3.jpg) Finishing touches during the construction of the Inji Gompa, a practice place built by and for the Western monks and nuns, Dharamsala, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Dharamsala
India
Inji Gompa
LYWA Collection
Margaret McAndrew
McLeod Ganj
Pemo Thubten (Linda Grossman)
Scott Brusso
Ursula Bernis
Max, New Delhi, 1976
Description:
(39331_sl-3.jpg) Max Mathews with fabric for her clothing business, New Delhi, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
1977
India
LYWA Collection
Max Mathews
New Delhi
Ninth course, Kopan, 1976
Description:
(39338_sl-3.psd) Lama Yeshe with his ski-pole, Ninth Meditation course, Kopan, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
9th Meditation Course
Group Photo
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
LYWA Collection
Lama Yeshe
Nepal
Ski Pole
Nick Ribush, Kopan, 1976
Description:
(16781_pr-3.psd) Nick Ribush, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
Nepal
Nick Ribush
Nick Ribush (donor)
Lama, Manjushri, 1977
Description:
(18450_pr-3.psd) Lama Yeshe leading practice at Manjushri Institute, England, 1976.
Keywords:
1977
England
LYWA Collection
Lama Yeshe
Manjushri Institute
Elisabeth, Kopan, 1976
Description:
(25495_ng-3.psd) Elisabeth Drukier, Kopan Monastery, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Elisabeth Drukier
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
LYWA Collection
Nepal
Ani Karin, Kopan, 1976
Description:
(25519_ng-3.jpg) Ani Karin Valham, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1976.
Keywords:
1976
Karin Valham
Kathmandu
Kopan Monastery
LYWA Collection
Nepal
Portrait
High lamas at Inji Gompa, 1976
Description:
(16773_sl-3.psd) Group photo from the consecration of Inji Gompa, including from the left: Margaret McAndrew, Ven. Nawang, Nick Ribush, Losang Gyeltsen, Bonnie Rothenberg (Konchog Donma or KD), Ani Jenni, Angeles de la Torre, Spring Chokyi Livingston, Ani Ursula, Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche, Jeffrey Webster, Geshe Dhargyey, Mike Lewis, Glen Mullins, Geshe Jampa Tegchok, Dieter Kratzer, and Elizabeth Drukier. In 1976, the Sangha set about rebuilding some property in McLeod Ganj for retreat purposes which they dubbed "Inji Gompa." ("Inji" is a Tibetan slang word for all westerners irrespective of their country of origin.)
Keywords:
1976
Blessing
Dharamsala
Dhargyey Geshe Ngawang
Dieter Kratzer
Elisabeth Drukier
India
Inji Gompa
McLeod Ganj
Nick Ribush (donor)
Tegchok Jampa Geshe
Tsenshab Serkong Rinpoche