(1935-1984) born in Tibet, where he studied until 1959, when the Chinese invasion of Tibet forced him into exile in India. Lama Yeshe continued to study and meditate under the direction of the foremost Tibetan masters of the time in India until 1967, when, with his chief disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, he went to Nepal. Two years later he established Kopan Monastery, in order make Buddhism available to Westerners. In 1974, requested by their students, the Lamas began making annual teaching tours to the West and as a result of these travels a worldwide network of Buddhist teaching and meditation centres--the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition--began to develop. In 1984, at the age of forty-nine, Lama Yeshe passed away.
For lama's life story, teachings, and stories by students and friends, visit the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, which is devoted to the teachings of Ven Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Abuse is not ok in any way, shape or form. It touches and does harm to so many lives. This is indeed the way evil is manifesting on this earth. Only Love and compassion can extinguish this harm being done daily. Show love to your abusers and forgive them. Wish them help and healing for they are suffering the most. Reach out to those abusers and offer to help them. Wake them up and make them realize that they have a problem and it's not everybody else. WAKE UP!!
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
