A little Lhasa: Central Virginia has become the center of a new kind of Tibetan Buddhist community


Venerable Tenzin Gephel grew up in a Tibetan community in India, and joined a Tibetan Buddhist monastery at age 13. Photo: Martyn Kyle

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