Big love : The life and teachings of Lama Yeshe; volume 1 1935-1978 / Adele Hulse.

Volume 1 of a two-volume set.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of maps -- Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- Foreword by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche -- Introduction by Jonathan Landaw -- Prelude -- 1935-40: Beginnings -- 1941-58: Living a monastic life -- 1959: Flight to India -- 1959-66: Refugee life in India -- 1967: Thubten Yeshe meets a Russian princess -- 1968: Zina is ordained -- 1969: Kopan's beginning -- 1970: The first group ordination -- 1971: The first kopan meditation course -- 1972: Unsurpassed Dharma land of enlightenment -- 1973: First steps, first students -- 1974: Introducing Vajrasattva -- 1975: We need an organization -- 1976: Heaven is now -- 1977: The more meditation, the more happy -- 1978; Mahayana, Mahayana, Mahayana! --

Lama Yeshe spent his first twenty-four years in Tibet, fleeing from the Chinese invasion in 1959. He spent the remaining twenty-five years of his life first as a refugee in India and Nepal, and then as a tireless traveller throughout much of the world. Together wtih his heart-son and spiritual heir, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe was in the forefront of masters bringing Buddhist teachings to the West.