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The Official Homepage for

Venerable Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

—Spiritual Director of the FPMT

 

Rinpoche met His Holiness in Deer Park, USA. July 2008.
Photographer Ven Roger Kunsang

To put an end to our samsaric suffering, we must do two things: One is to purify the negative actions we've done every day of our lives and in our infinite previous lives as well. We also have to change our minds and actions and abstain from creating further negativities.

–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.