Nepal February-March 2018

Rinpoche and Ven. Drachom at Kopan - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche and Kopan Sangha doing puja after the earthquakes in Taiwan - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Kopan Sangha reciting Diamond Cutter sutra after the earthquakes in Taiwan - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche visited the Kopan cafe and talked with some monks there - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche sitting outside the cafe at Kopan - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche and Khadro-la in Kopan - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche giving advice to Kamal, who worked at Kopan in the dining room and kitchen for many years and developed cancer. Rinpoche and Khadro-la did prayers for him and blessed him and Khadro-la also gave him advice how to think. Kamal died a few weeks after this meeting - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche and Khadro-la enjoying walking around Kopan grounds - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Ladaki Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and Khadro-la enjoying seeing the monastery grounds - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche with his sister Ani Ngawang Samten, who had come down to visit from Lawudo - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche with Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi and students circumambulating Boudha stupa at night - Boudhanath Stupa, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Greeting the Tibetan New Year (Losar) with chemar - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Doing Lama Chopa after Palden Lhamo puja on the first day of Losar (Tibetan New Year) - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Khen Rinpoche Geshe Chonyi, the abbot of Kopan, offering a requesting mandala during the White Tara long life initiation on the second day of the Losar - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Ani Jangsem, Ven. Shenphen, and Ven. Pemba meeting Trulshik Rinpoche's reincarnation Tenzin Choekyi Lodoe Rinpoche in Sitapaila on the fourth day of Losar - Kathmandu, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche with the co-directors of Cham Tse Ling - Esther Ngai and Ven. Pemba - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche having lunch with Oser Dorje Rinpoche - Maratika, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Oser Dorje Rinpoche with Kopan's Lower Tantric College monks and others on the steps in Maratika cave - Maratika, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Kopan's Lower Tantric College monks are reciting Long Life Sutra and Guhyasamaja Root Text everyday for Lama Zopa Rinpoche's long life in the Maratika Cave - Maratika, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche going to bless the stupa built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche, who is leading Rinpoche, and the local community - Pakarbas, Ramechhap District, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Losang Namgyal Rinpoche consecrating the new stupa with Kopan's lower tantric college monks - Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving teaching to the local people on the benefit of stupas and generating a good heart; afterwards everyone was blessed by Rinpoche - Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Newly built 45-feet-tall Enlightenment Stupa built by Losang Namgyal Rinpoche and local community that Lama Zopa Rinpoche went to bless - Pakarbas, Ramechhap District, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche enjoying in Pokhara - Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche making prayers in front of the Maitreya statue that speaks at Jampaling Tibetan settlement - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Lama Zopa Rinpoche with Taklung Matul Rinpoche at Taklung Kagyu Domsumling Monastery - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche went to Jampaling Tibetan refugee settlement in Pokhara to see the Maitreya statue, that speaks, plus all the Kangyur and Tengyur written in gold, and many more statues all brought from Tibet. Rinpoche with Taklung Matul Rinpoche and senior monks from Taklung Kagyu Domsumling Monastery - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-02

Rinpoche and Drolkar Maree Court, director of Ganden Yiga Chozin Buddhist Meditation Centre, in Pokhara - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2018-03

Rinpoche and Ven. Ailsa Cameron - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2018-03

Rinpoche, Sangha, and Drolkar Maree Court (director of Ganden Yiga Chozin Buddhist Meditation Centre) enjoying a meal - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2018-03

During the 15 Days of Miracles, Rinpoche blessed a lot of food and water for the fish and beings in the second largest lake in Pokhara and offered it with mantras and prayers to all the beings in the lake - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-03

During the 15 Days of Miracles, Rinpoche blessed a lot of food and water for the fish and beings in Begnas Lake, the second largest lake in Pokhara and offered it with mantras and prayers to all the beings in the lake - Pokhara, Nepal; Photographer: Lobsang Sherab; 2018-03

Rinpoche with new Buddha statue Rinpoche is offering to Land of Medicine Buddha's new stupa - Kopan Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal; Photographer: Roger Kunsang; 2018-03