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Lama Thubten Yeshe was born in Tibet in 1935. At the age of six, he entered Sera Monastic University in Tibet where he studied until 1959, when as Lama Yeshe himself has said, “In that year the Chinese kindly told…
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THE EARLY DAYS By Harvey Horrocks, director of Manjushri Institute 1975-81 The meditation courses at Kopan in Nepal, which began in 1969 and were led by both Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Yeshe were the source of extraordinary inspiration. After…
By Adele Hulse I have been working on Lama Yeshe’s biography for four years now. When I run into students, as one does, we chat for a bit and then they say, “And uh, how is the book going? When…
DHARMA IN THE MODERN WORLD By Peter Kedge Lama Yeshe frequently emphasized the importance of engaging in business as support for FPMT activity as well as providing a livelihood for students and friends. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has spoken many times…
TEACHINGS AND ADVICE: LAMA YESHE’S WISDOM One of the earliest video recordings of Lama Yeshe teaching was taken at Royal Holloway College in London, England in 1975. Lama Yeshe’s dynamism and expressiveness are clearly evident in this subtitled video –…
September-October 1995 By Glenn H. Mullin Buddhism uses the simile of a blue lotus to represent events of extraordinary beauty, wonder and magic. The blue lotus appears but rarely, and always as an omen of great enlightenment activity, of a…
BOOKS Jan Willis, Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in the United Stated, has just had her new book, Enlightened Beings, published in Boston by Wisdom. She talks to Ven. Robina Courtin about why, as she acknowledges…
May-June 1995 By Ven. Robina Courtin Last summer Vajrapani member John Schwartz spent four months in Los Angeles helping his friend Michael Wayne restore one of the unreleased movies of John Wayne, Michael’s father. “The negative was at least forty…
Lama Yeshe speaks with Brian Beresford with characteristic charisma and candor in this short excerpt from Bringing Dharma to the West. Lama Yeshe discusses his admiration for the Western approach to studying Buddhism, the value of investigating Buddhist principles, Buddhist…
LAMA YESHE’S WISDOM By Lama Thubten Yeshe Tonight I’m going to give a brief introduction to the Buddhist view of human reality, focusing on death, the intermediate state and so forth. Buddhism explains human beings’ higher qualities of intuition, intellect…
April-June 2010 This photo montage, created by David Zinn, features the FPMT mandala, images of Chenrezig, Lama Tsongkhapa, Buddha Maitreya, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche over a soundtrack of Lama Zopa Rinpoche chanting OM…
HOLY OBJECTS Countless eons ago, having made many offerings, Maitreya took bodhisattva vows from the Tathagata Great Power in front of many other buddhas. From that moment on he has led countless sentient beings to enlightenment, guiding them along the…