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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Kopan Monastry, Kathmandu

Kopan Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Boudhanath, on the outskirts of KathmanduNepal. It belongs to theFoundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of Gelugpa dharma centers, and once served as its headquarters.
The monastery was established by the FPMT founders, Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who bought the property from Nepal's royal astrologer in 1969. Its name comes from the name of the hill on which it was built

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