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 Lama Yeshe Online Audio Wisdom Archive
This
page has been posted within the Buddhism area of the Information Centre of
this website so that visitors can find the online audio teachings of Lama
Thubten Yeshe.
Lama
Yeshe, together with his fellow Tulka, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, created a movement to bring
Buddhist teachings to western people. Although Lama Yeshe passed away some
time ago, some of his teachings are available free of charge on line within
the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive.
Background
Lama
Thubten Yeshe was a Tibetan Tulka, born in 1935 who
studied at the Buddhist Sera Monastic
University near Lhasa. A Tulka is a Buddhist spiritual teacher or leader who has
taken the Bodhisattva vow and incarnates repeatedly in order to be able to
help people in the physical planes. There are many Tulka
lineages at present, one of the most well known being that of His Holiness
The Dalai Lama. The Sera University was one of the main centres
of Buddhist Studies in Tibet
before the Chinese invaded and now continues outside of Tibet.
Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche is a Nepalese Tulka,
born in 1946 in Thami. As a young boy, he was recognised as the reincarnation of
the Lawudo Lama, Kunzang
Yeshe, who had lived
nearby. In his Lawado Lama incarnation, he had been
a renowned teacher of the tantric teachings of the Nyingma Lineage of Buddhism. In the incarnation
immediately before the Lawado Lama lifetime, he had
been in the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He
moved to Tibet as a child
but had to move to India
after the Chinese invasion. In India he met Lama Yeshe and the
two worked together until Lama Yeshe’s death in
1984.
The Mission
In
India,
Lama Yeshe and Lama Rinpoche met Zina Rachevsky, a Russian-American lady who was in the region
on a spiritual pilgrimage. In 1969, the three bought Kopan
Hill near Kathmandu’s Boudhanath Stupa. Kopan Monastery was
founded there as a teaching centre so that Buddhism could be taught to
Westerners. This is where the world famous annual Kopan
November course was started. Please click here to go to the Kopan Monastery website.
In
1974 Lama Yeshe and Lama Rinpoche started to travel to the western countries
on teaching tours. Over the years a network of Buddhist teaching and
meditation centres was created in the footsteps of
the teaching tours. These are now
operated under the umbrella of the Foundation for the Preservation of the
Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), of which Lama Rinpoche is the worldwide Spiritual
Director. Click here
to go to the FPMT website for further information. Lama Rinpoche is also connected to other
important projects, either in a Directorial role or fund raising role. Click here to read about the Maitreya Project which was the dream of Lama Yeshe, click
here to read about
Sera Jey Monastery where the reincarnated Lama
Yeshe went back to study, and click here to read about The Lama Tsong Khapa Teachers’ Fund.
Lama
Yeshe passed away at the young age of 49 in 1984. He reincarnated again
shortly afterwards in Spain
as Ösel Hita Torres in
1985. Ösel was officially recognised as the
reincarnation of Lama Yeshe in 1986 by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He later
moved to the Sera University at Sera Je
Monastery which had transferred to India
from Lhasa
after the Chinese invasion to study there. He is currently studying in Europe away from the public eye. His story was captured
in the book by Vicki MacKenzie, Reincarnation: The
Boy Lama published by Wisdom Publications. Extracts from the book can be
found by clicking here.
Lama Yeshe Online Audio Wisdom Archive
Some
of Lama Yeshe’s work from that incarnation is
available online free of charge for anybody to access in the form of both
audio recordings and text. Please click here to go to the
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive website. The Wisdom Archive is a project directed
by Lama Rinpoche and includes some of his teachings as well as some of those
of His Holiness The Dalai Lama and of other leading Buddhist teachers.
Uploading of audio and text files to the Wisdom Archive is an ongoing project
and over the years ahead the Wisdom Archive will develop into an enormous
online library of Buddhist teachings.
Date of posting : 30th November 2007
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