Lama Zopa Rinpoche has had a busy month of travel. Rinpoche visited and taught at several FPMT centers in Australia before traveling to Dharamsala, India, to attend the long life puja for His Holiness the Dalai Lama on June 21. The long life ... Read full article
]]>At the end of the 1976 course Lama Yeshe had begun teaching Discriminating Between the Middle and the Extremes (Tib. U ta nam che), one of the five treatises of Maitreya Buddha. Now, at the end of 1978 Lama resumed these teachings. He finished the first chapter of the text and began the second. Every […]
From 1978: Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: “On the train ride up to Dharamsala Lama and I shared a first-class compartment with two other people,” Judy Weitzner recalled. “Even though he was wearing robes, Lama pretended we were married and drove them nuts by never quite answering any of their questions. It […]
From 1978: Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: Trisha Donnelly had spent several years in Delhi in the employ of Jamie and Isabelle Johnston. She met Nick Ribush when he moved into the Johnston’s house in Old Delhi. Now, Trisha turned up at Kopan to attend her first course. She just loved Lama […]
From 1978: Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: On 16 October, the day before the lamas’ scheduled departure, Lama met with the Spanish organizers of the course at Fredi’s house. Now that they had sufficient funds they could begin to think about what kind of center they wanted to establish in Spain. Lama […]
From 1978: Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: Zong Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche embarked on a tour of Canada. They were scheduled to be at Geshe Sopa’s Deer Park center from 17 June to 16 July, and Ama Lobsang was to join them for the last two weeks. The Californians piled into […]
From 1978: Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: While in Dharamsala, Lama’s student Gyatso (Dr. Adrian Feldmann) took Lama down to a big hospital in Lower Dharamsala for a medical check-up. “The X-rays revealed Lama’s heart was so massively enlarged it filled his chest cavity,” reported Adrian. “Non-functioning heart valves make a lot […]
From 1978: Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: Lama Yeshe had expressed a desire for an American university “experewence” on many occasions. In the spring of 1978, Jan Willis was able to fulfill Lama’s wish. She arranged for him to teach a course on Tibetan Buddhism at the University of California’s Oakes College […]
Author Adele Hulse talks about the creation of Lama Thubten Yeshe’s biography “Big Love.” The talk was given in 2014 during the one-month retreat with Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion near Bendigo, Australia. This book has been over 20 years in the making, from the early beginnings of author Adele […]
From 1978: Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: In January Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche left for Bodhgaya to attend His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s annual teachings. Lama Lhundrup, Lama Pasang, Geshe Jampa Gyatso and a group of devoted students accompanied them, while Geshe Tsering remained at Kopan as acting abbot. His […]