BACKGROUND THE KOPAN NUNNERY

Buddhism flourished in Tibet for more than a thousand years until the Chinese invasion in 1959, which led to the Dalai Lama fleeing into exile to India. With him came thousands of Tibetans determined to continue their religious and cultural traditions. Because of their efforts, the Tibetan Buddhist teachings, transmitted unbroken and unaltered through a lineage of learned teachers to the present day, are still taught in the monasteries and nunneries the Tibetans have been able to establish in exile.

Khachoe Chakyil Ling Nunnery (Kopan Nunnery) is one of those nunneries. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, founders of Kopan Monastery in the Kathmandu Valley, admitted the first nuns to live and study there in 1979.Kopan Nunnery is currently the largest Tibetan nunnery in Nepal with 400 nun
The ingredients for this very special Incense comes from trees and herbs from the high mountains of the Solu Khumbu area. It's main ingredients Rhododendron leaves and flower are collected at the Lawudo Retreat center.The Fragrance is uplifting and refreshing, like breath of fresh air from the snow capped mountains of the Himalayas.

Dimension:17 cm L X 9 cm B X 4 cm H / 6.7" L X 3.54"B X1.57"H
Number of Incense Coil = 8
Length of Incense Coil = 7 cm D