A MONKS PHOTO JOURNAL: Preparing For HH The Dalai Lama's Visit to Mundgod

The monks of Rato Dratsang preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit

Rato Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, India

The monks of Rato Dratsang preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit

Preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit, Rato Dratsang Monastery

Preparing for HH The Dalai Lama's visit, Rato Dratsang Monastery

Rato Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, India

A Monk's PhotoJournalist, Nicholas Vreeland

The monks of Rato Dratsang Monastery, in Mundgod, Karnataka, India, are preparing for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Inaugurate their Monastery January 31, 2011, followed by Teachings Febuary 1-5th. HH The Dalai Lama Schedule of teachings Here. Many of the new buildings for the Monastery were provided for from the sale of photographs by Nicholas Vreeland through the Rato Dratsang Foundation. Early in his career, Vreeland worked for both Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. An exhibition of his photographs will be shown at the Leica Gallery, New York, April 22- June 4, 2011.

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A Monks PhotoJournal: May and June

Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and friends, May 2010 (enlarge)
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Geshe Vreeland rushing through Naples, June 2010
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Rome, June 2010
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

New York Leica Gallery Director Jay R. Deutsch and Nicholas Vreeland.
My photo, NYC, June 4, 2010

Rinpoche, author of "My Life and Lives", with a foreword by Joseph Campbell, studying Tibetan texts on his porch, June 2010. Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

HH The Dalai Lama Teaching at Radio City Music Hall, May 20th-22nd, 2010. The Teaching Organizers, front row facing, l to r; Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, Geshe Nicholas Vreeland, Richard Gere and translator Geshe Thupten Jinpa. Photograph (c) Herman Velez/All Rights Reserved

Khyongla Rato Rinpoche making a traditional offering to HHDL
Photograph (c) Herman Velez/All Rights Reserved

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Train to New Jersey
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Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, New Jersey
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Buddha

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Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

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Train from New Jersey
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A Monk's PhotoJournal: April 2010

New Jersey: Venerable Nicholas Vreeland, Director of The Tibet Center (the oldest Tibetan Buddhist Center in New York City founded by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche), sent photos from his recent stop-over in New Jersey with Rinpoche while they prepare for His Holiness The Dalai Lama's visit to New York in May. The Tibet Center and Richard Gere's Healing The Divide organization will co-host His Holiness The Dalai Lama's Teachings at Radio City Music Hall in NYC May 20-23, 2010. Purchase Tickets.

A Monk's PhotoJournal: March 2010
A Monk's PhotoJournal: Dec 2009

Nicholas Vreeland Bio
Rato Dratsang Foundation Photographs For Sale
An Open Heart by The Dalai Lama, Edited by Nicholas Vreeland

NICHOLAS VREELAND: A Monk's PhotoJournal March 2010

The town of McLeod Ganj, above Dharamsala
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Circumambulating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's palace...
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

View of the valley from lower Dharamsala
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Mani Stones along the Road
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The Ling Lineage: Khyongla Rato Rinpoche teaching Ling Rinpoche (left), Thamtog Rinpoche, Guru Rinpoche, Zopa Rinpoche, Dakpo Rinpoche, Pagri Rinpoche and others. Rinpoche was bestowing the oral transmission of a text written by the previous Ling Rinpoche's predecessor, which Khyongla Rinpoche had received from the previous Ling Rinpoche (b. 1903 d. 1983) and was teaching at the request of the present Ling Rinpoche (b. 1985). Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

A Monk's PhotoJournal: March 2010

Dharamsala, India: Tibetan Buddhist monk and photographer, Venerable Nicholas Vreeland, Director of The Tibet Center (the oldest Tibetan Buddhist Center in New York City founded by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche), sent photos from his recent stop-over in Dharamsala, the home of HH the Dalai Lama. After years of receiving NV's photo-email updates, I'm now posting his updates intermittently as "A Monk's PhotoJournal".

Vreeland's Fine Art Photography was recently exhibited throughout Europe and the U.S., including the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, with proceeds from their sales going towards the Rato Dratsang Foundation.

The Tibet Center and Richard Gere's Healing The Divide organization will co-host His Holiness The Dalai Lama's Teachings at Radio City Music Hall in NYC May 20-23, 2010. Purchase Tickets.

Nicholas Vreeland Bio

Vreeland PhotoJournal
Rato Dratsang Foundation
A Monk's PhotoJournal: Dec 2009
An Open Heart by The Dalai Lama, Edited by Nicholas Vreeland

TRAVEL NOTES: Khyongla Rato Rinpoche

Richard Gere and Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, with HH the Dalai Lama's senior tutor, Kyabje Ling Rinpoche (embalmed body d. 1983), Dharamsala, India 1988. Photograph (c) Elizabeth Paul Avedon /All Rights Reserved

A Monk's PhotoJournal: December 2009

Greetings From The Mountains In Taiwan

Photograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, Taiwan
Photograph (c) 2009 Nicholas Vreeland /All Rights Reserved

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