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Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche

This is just a short biography of Lama Zopa Rinpoche.

For a longer biography, an autobiography and more information about Lama Zopa Rinpoche and his work, see Lama Zopa Rinpoche's page on the FPMT website.

Rinpoche was born in Thami, Nepal, in 1946. At the age of three he was recognized as the reincarnation of Sherpa Nyingma yogi, Kunsang Yeshe, the Lawudo Lama.

Rinpoche’s Thami home was not far from the Lawudo cave, in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, where his predecessor meditated for the last twenty years of his life. Rinpoche’s own description of his early years may be found in his book, The Door to Satisfaction (Wisdom Publications).

At the age of ten, Rinpoche went to Tibet and studied and meditated at Domo Geshe Rinpoche’s monastery near Pagri, until the Chinese occupati