Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s 2017

Rinpoche and Khadro-la at Root Institute - Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

Jangtse Choje Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche by Sera Je Monastery - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche by Sera Je Monastery, in front of a statue of Maitreya Buddha - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Rinpoche with Tenzin Osel Hita in Rinpoche's room at Root Institute - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Lama Chopa tsog puja on Maitreya land, offered by Kopan monks and nuns, as well as Kopan monks from Sera, Sangha from Tsum and Westerners. Khadro-la also attended - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Lama Chopa puja on Maitreya Project land - India; Photographer: Jane Seidlitz

Rinpoche with Dagri Rinpoche and Ven. Tenzin Gyaltsen - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Rinpoche and Richard Gere at Root Institute - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Richard Gere, Alejandra Silvia, Ven. Holly Ansett and Fabrizio Pallotti at Root Institute - Root Institute, Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

Rinpoche meeting HE Sakya Trizin in Bodhgaya - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

Rinpoche arriving at the ruins of Nalanda, with Ven.Roger and Ven.Tendar - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Kunchok Gyaltsen

Rinpoche giving oral transmission at ruins of Nalanda, with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi, Kopan monks and nuns, and others. Rinpoche gave the oral transmission of the debate between wisdom and ignorance - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Kunchok Gyaltsen

Pilgrimage to the ruins of Nalanda Monastery - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Kunchok Gyaltsen

Rinpoche, Sangha, and students meditating at the stupa in Sarnath. Rinpoche led an extensive meditation on the seven limbs - Sarnath, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Rinpoche, Sangha, and students meditating at the stupa in Sarnath. Rinpoche led an extensive meditation on the seven limbs - Sarnath, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Rinpoche, Sangha, and students circumambulating the stupa in Sarnath. Rinpoche led an extensive meditation on the seven limbs - Sarnath, India; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Rinpoche visited Maitreya School, a project of Root Institute, to give teachings and gifts to the 190 children at the school - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

Rinpoche giving out gifts to all the children of Maitreya School. Rinpoche gave a towel, soap, toothpaste, and blessing cords; and the next day also offered new shoes and socks - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

Rinpoche visited Shakyamuni Buddha Community Health Care Clinic, a project of Root Institute, to bless very sick patients. Rinpoche did a very short Medicine Buddha puja and explained how to think about illness in order to use it on the path to enlightenment - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

Rinpoche blesses a box of puppies at Maitri Charitable Project by reciting mantras - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

Rinpoche with Adriana Ferranti, director, on his visit to Maitri Charitable Project in Bodhgaya, where Rinpoche blessed all the staff and animals and gave a talk to all the staff, children from schools that Maitri runs in villages, and also to patients with leprosy and other illnesses helped by Maitri - Bodhgaya, India; Photographer: Roger Kunsang

The five dakinis during the long life puja offered to Rinpoche at the Tara Temple, Sarnath - Sarnath, India; Photographer: Paolo Regis

Tenzin Osel Hita gave a moving speech and request to Rinpoche at the long life puja offered to Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the Tara Pure Land Temple - Sarnath, India; Photographer: Paolo Regis

Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi making offerings during the long life puja at Tara Pure Land Temple, Sarnath - Sarnath, India; Photographer: Paolo Regis

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with his sister Ani Ngawang Samten and uncle - Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab; 2017-02

Kopan Monastery group photo on Losar - Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab; 2017-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with the Vajrasattva group retreatants during their three-month retreat at Kopan Monastery - Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Lama Chopa puja on the morning of Losar, Tibetan New Year - Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and the Kopan Geshes - Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2017-03

Offering mandala to Rinpoche during of the enthronement of Thubten Rigsel Rinpoche. - Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing hair cutting ceremony for Thubten Rigsel Rinpoche - Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab; 2017-02

Enthronement of Thubten Rigsel Rinpoche, with Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi - Kopan Monastery, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab

Brothers -- Thubten Rigsel Rinpoche and Tenzin Phuntsok Rinpoche -- Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab; 2017-03

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Thubten Rigsel Rinpoche, Khen Rinpoche, and Losang Namgyal Rinpoche - Kopan Monastery, Nepal; Photographer: Losang Sherab; 2017-03

Lama Zopa Rinpoche blesses Sagarmatha Lower Secondary School during his first visit to the school - Sagarmatha Secondary School, Chailsa, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-03

Children of Sagarmatha Lower Secondary School do prayers every morning - Sagarmatha Secondary School, Chailsa, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-03

Students at Sagarmatha Lower Secondary School - Chailsa, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2017-03

Children of Sagarmatha Lower Secondary School lined up on the assembly ground to receive Lama Zopa Rinpoche (far right), parents were seated and looking on - Sagarmatha Secondary School, Chailsa, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2017-03

Rinpoche in front of Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery - Chailsa, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-03

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offering a khata to the holy body of Trulshik Rinpoche - Thubten Choling, Junbesi, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-04

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with the monks and nuns of Thubten Choling Monastery doing prayers in front of the holy body of the late Trulshik Rinpoche, in the mandala house on altar - Thubten Choling, Junbesi, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-04

Lama Zopa Rinpoche going down into the cave at Maratika - Maratika, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-04

Lama Zopa Rinpoche in the main cave at Maratika - Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2017-04

Lama Zopa Rinpoche doing puja in the main cave at Maratika with sangha and Western student - Maratika, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-04

Rinpoche meeting in the Dolma Ling Nunnery with the nuns - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's arrival at Khamar Monastery in the eastern Gobi Desert. Khamar Monastery was founded by Danzan Ravjaa in 1820 and was an important monastery and education center until it was destroyed in 1937. The monastery was rebuilt after the 1990 Democratic Revolution - Mongolia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Entrance to Shambala in the eastern Gobi Desert near Khamar Monastery. The site was located and originally built by the charismatic 19th-century Mongolian lama Danzan Ravjaa - Mongolia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

In a ger (yurt) in Choyr in the Gobi Desert, Rinpoche giving an oral transmission of the Four Mindfulnesses, a teaching by Manjushri to Lama Tsongkhapa - Mongolia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

First day of teaching organized by Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives motivation before Great Chenrezig Initiation - Idgaa Choizinling Dratsang Ganden Monastery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

First day of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at Idgaa Choizinling Monastery - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Mandala offering at the end of the teaching event organized by Ganden Do Ngag Shedrup Ling - Idgaa Choizinling Dratsang Ganden Monastery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Telo Rinpoche outside the older temple in Elista, the cultural minister holds the umbrella for Telo Rinpoche - Elista, Russia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Outside the Golden Abode of Shakyamuni Buddha temple - Elista, Russia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Rinpoche teaching in the Golden Abode of Shakyamuni Buddha temple - Elista, Russia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Press conference with all the media of Elista - Kalmykia, Russia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Lama Zopa Rinpoche arriving at the Kalmyk cultural preformance, where he is offered tea - Elista, Russia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Moscow, at the venue where the teachings are happening. - Moscow, Russia; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-05

First day of Lama Zopa Rinpoche teachings organized by Ganden Tendar Ling - Moscow, Russia; Photographer: Renat Alyaudinov

Approximately 700 people attended the first evening teachings with Lama Zopa Rinpoche - Moscow, Russia; Photographer: Renat Alyaudinov

Lama Zopa Rinpoche at teaching event organized by Ganden Tendar Ling - Moscow, Russia; Photographer: Renat Alyaudinov

Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing dogs - Ganden Tendar Ling, Moscow, Russia; Photographer: Renat Alyaudinov

Lama Zopa Rinpoche blessing animals - Moscow, Russia; Photographer: Renat Alyaudinov

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Sangha who were at the house doing Vajrayogini self initiation - Kachoe Dechen Ling (Rinpoche's House), Aptos, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-06

Rinpoche reciting mantras and blessing Ven. Jangchup's new dog - Kachoe Dechen Ling (Rinpoche's House), Aptos, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-06

Lama Zopa Rinpoche writing mantras that are on the inside of a shade umbrella, so when you sit underneath it you get blessing from the powerful mantras - Kachoe Dechen Ling (Rinpoche's House), Aptos, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-06

Lama Zopa Rinpoche offering a relic to Dagri Rinpoche - Kachoe Dechen Ling (Rinpoche's House), Aptos, United States; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2017-06

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Dagri Rinpoche blessing the ocean and all beings in the ocean - Aptos, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-06

Puja outside at night for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's birthday - Taos, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-07

Rinpoche offering charity to the ants - Taos, United States; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2017-07

Lama Zopa Rinpoche attends a pow wow in Taos, pictured with Ven. Zia Al Bassam - Taos, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-07

Rinpoche at the stupa in El Rito, New Mexico - United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-07

Incense offering while putting up prayer flags - Taos, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Rinpoche teaching - Thubten Norbu Ling Center, Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Rinpoche teaching - Thubten Norbu Ling Center, Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Sister Max Mathews and Lama Zopa Rinpoche - Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Rinpoche with students from Ksitigarbha Tibetan Buddhist Center in Taos - Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ven. Robina Courtin going over questions for new reprint of "How to Enjoy Death" - Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and students from Lama Yeshe House in Colorado - Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and students from Thubten Norbu Ling Center - Thubten Norbu Ling Center, Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Thubten Norbu Ling director Rowena Mayer, resident teacher Don Handrick, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and Geshe Sherab, resident geshe - Thubten Norbu Ling Center, Santa Fe, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Gelek in a shopping mall - Raleigh, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Rinpoche making prayers in front of the new Atisha statue at Kadampa Center - Raleigh, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Rinpoche offering to the children at Kadampa Center - Raleigh, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Rinpoche writing mantras on a balloon - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Ven. Roger Kunsang driving Rinpoche to the teaching gompa in one of the "Bodhichitta buses" - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-08

Sangha from Australia and New Zealand leading Rinpoche into the gompa before teachings - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Light of the Path retreat participants - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Rinpoche teaching during the retreat - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Rinpoche with the children and parents of Kadampa Center Family Camp - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is requested to come to Institut Vajra Yogini in France to lead a Vajrayogini retreat by students, including Paula Chichester (Nyingje), Ven. Chantal Carrerot, and Alexis Benelhadj - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Harald Weichhart; 2017-09

Rinpoche making dedications at the retreat - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Kalleen Mortensen; 2017-09

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Sangha at the retreat - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Harald Weichhart; 2017-09

Group photo with Lama Zopa Rinpoche taken on the last night of the retreat - Light of the Path Retreat, Black Mountain, United States; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Rinpoche with Ven. Roger choosing cards - Vienna, Austria; Photographer: Markus Igel; 2017-09

Markus Igel, Rinpoche, and Ven. Roger walking to subway - Vienna, Austria; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Rinpoche waiting for the train to arrive - Vienna, Austria; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Rinpoche with board, director, SPC, and key volunteers of Panchen Losang Chogyen center at a restaurant - Vienna, Austria; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2017-09

Stefan Seidler (director) and Andrea Husnki (founder and SPC) with Lama Zopa Rinpoche - Panchen Losang Chogyen, Vienna, Austria; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Rinpoche teaching at Panchen Losang Chogyen Center - Vienna, Austria; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09

Rinpoche teaching at Panchen Losang Chogyen - Vienna, Austria; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2017-09