Tags: Philosopher.
Thubten Zöpa Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་བཟོད་པ་ Wylie: Thub-bstan Bzod-pa; born 1946) is a lama from Thami a village in the Khumbu region of Nepal. Early in life he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Lawudo Lama from the same region (hence the title Rinpoche). He took his monastic vows at Dungkar Monastery in Tibet where he travelled in 1957 but he had to flee due to severe treatment on monks inflicted by the Chinese army after the 1959 Tibetan uprising.
