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Venerable Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

—Spiritual Director of the FPMT


Rinpoche met His Holiness in Deer Park, USA. July 2008.
Photographer Ven Roger Kunsang
Countless sentient beings have suffered by being harmed or killed for every grain of rice you eat. Think about the previous grain from which it came. If you understand this, there's no way you'll be able to eat simply for your own selfish enjoyment; you'll always make offerings of your food and drink.
–Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lama Zopa Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Thami, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, not far from the Lawudo cave where his predecessor had meditated for the last 20 years of his life. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is now the Spiritual Director of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and oversees all of its activities.