The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, greets a crowd in Cathedral Square. He is wearing a Tibetan kata around his neck. Also with him is Della Simmons.
Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey (Gen Rinpoche) was for many years the principle teacher at the Tibetan Library in Dharamsala, India. As such, he became the teacher of thousands of international students who...
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey (Gen Rinpoche), walking through Christchurch Botanic Gardens. Also with him are Losang Dawa, Pal Tsering, Lieke, and Della Simmons.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey (Gen Rinpoche), walking through Christchurch Botanic Gardens with Della Simmons.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey (Gen Rinpoche), visiting Christchurch Botanic Gardens. With him are Khedrup La, Losang Dawa, Pal Tsering, Lieke, and Della Simmons.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey (Gen Rinpoche), visiting Christchurch Botanic Gardens. He is holding his mala (prayer beads).
Tibetan Buddhist monks, Khedrup La and Pal Tsering visiting Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey (Gen Rinpoche), seated in a glasshouse at Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Pal Tsering, studying hard for his upcoming geshe exams.
Tibetan Buddhist lama, Karma Samten, performing a chab.tu ceremony for baby Ongmo Herrett sometime in 1989. Also visible are Wendy Murphy, and Della Simmons holding Ongmo Herrett.
Tibetan Buddhist lama, Karma Samten, performing a puja outside the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo during the power crisis of 1992. In his right hand he is holding a damaru and in his left...
Tibetan Buddhist lama, Karma Samten, performing a puja on the shore of Lake Pukaki with Aoraki Mount Cook in the background. He is holding tingsha (ཏིང་ཤགས་)
Tibetan Buddhist monks, Lama Samten and Lama Shedrup, greeting Master Hsing Yun (星雲), the Supreme Abbot of Buddha Light International, Taiwan, during his visit to Christchurch in 1993.
Tibetan Buddhist lama, Karma Samten, carving a mani stone with the mantra of the Buddha Amitabha “Om Ah Mi De Wa Hri”. This mantra stone was unveiled by Pong Re Rinpoche at the Christchurch Botanic...
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Lama Assi, at Aoraki Mount Cook.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Lama Assi, setting up the inaugural centre of the Canterbury Karma Kagyu Trust in Christchurch, 1999.
Portrait of Tibetan Buddhist monk, Lama Assi, when the Canterbury Karma Kagyu Trust centre was on Manchester Street.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Lama Assi, with Michael, Della Simmons, and John Herrett for the First Light at the Pier, New Brighton, Christchurch, 2000.
Tibetan Buddhist monk, Lama Assi, when the Karma Kagyu Trust centre was on Marama Crescent.
Tibetan Buddhist lama, Karma Samten, giving a dharma talk in St Martins, Christchurch.
The assembled audience, including Khensur Thabkhey Rinpoche and the secretary of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, inside ChristChurch Cathedral awaiting the arrival of His Holiness.
Members of the assembled audience inside ChristChurch Cathedral greeting His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. With him is Della Simmons.
Dean John Bluck chatting to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in ChristChurch Cathedral.