Tashi Rinpoche

Tashi Rinpoche met H. H. Buddha Maitreya in San Francisco, California after being introduced by a young Rinpoche, Geshe Tsultrim Choepak Rinpoche from Palden Zhiwa Monastery, a branch of the Migyur Monastery which is currently being rebuilt by H.H. Buddha Maitreya and his students. He had just arrived to New York some few days earlier from Singapore where he was involved in the largest Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandala in the World.

During the meeting, Tashi Rinpoche said that "He was the wish fulfilling jewel for H. H. The Dalai Lama." That whatever H. H. wanted Tashi always was there to fulfill. During this meeting H.H. Buddha Maitreya agreed to visit Lithang for a reception and to break ground for a new Dharma center, His first Buddha Maitreya Dharma center in Lithang, Tibet the highest city in the world. In August of 2004, H. H. Buddha Maitreya was received by the largest motorcade of cars ever to be seen since the Panchen Lama in Lit hang.