Our Spiritual Teachers

Lama Thubten Yeshe

Founder of Kopan
Lama Yeshe was born in Tibet and educated at the great Sera Monastic University in Lhasa. With his main disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe established Kopan Monastery near Kathmandu, Nepal. In 1974, the Lamas founded the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT).
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Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Spiritual director of the FPMT
Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche was born in Thami, Nepal in 1946 and was recognized to be the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama. When Lama Yeshe passed away in 1984, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche became the Spiritual Director of the FPMT and carried forward Lama Yeshe's activities and projects. Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche is Spiritual Director of Kopan.
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Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche

The recognised reincarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe
Lama Osel Rinpoche was born, in 1985, to Spanish parents and was recognized as the re-incarnation of Lama Thubten Yeshe. Now a teenager, and once again at his former Sera Monastic University, re-established in South India, Lama Osel is fluent in Spanish, English and Tibetan. Lama Osel follows both traditional Tibetan studies and a Western curriculum.
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Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel

Abbot of Kopan Monastery
Geshe Lhundrup Rigsel was born in Tibet in 1941, to a poor peasant family. He joined Sera Monastery while still a boy, and in 1959 fled from the Chinese invasion to India. In Buxa, the refugee camp in Northern India where many of the monks were sent by the Indian government, he met Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa, an studied with the great masters such as Geshe Rabten and others.
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Geshe Lama Konchog

A modern day Yogi (Geshe Lama Konchog lived at Kopan Monastery till he passed away in October 2001)
Only then it became known to the hundreds of monks, nuns and lay people devoted to Geshe Lama Konchog the extraordinary qualities of this modern-day Milarepa. He meditated in caves for 25 years but only a few people were aware of the details. Over the years his heart disciple and attendant, Tenzin Zopa has meticulously noted down the accomplishments of this great yogi, and is compiling information Lama Konchog's amazing biography.
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