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Venerable Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

—Spiritual Director of the FPMT


Photographer Piero Sirianni
We can transform any problem, even death, into happiness. The point is not to stop the experience of problems but to stop the conditions that we call 'problems' from disturbing our mind, and instead use them to support the spiritual path that we practice.
–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.