Lama Ananga Rika Govinda is considered to be perhaps the most influential in introducing Tibetan Buddhism to the West.
LAMAANAGARIKAGOVINDA AND THE HERMIT ABBOT OF LACHEN IN An outstanding example among modern hermit is the hermit abbot of Lachen ‘better known as the Gomchen of Lachen, who had his hermitage on the border between Northern Sikkim and Tibet.
In 1937 when LamaAnagarikaGovinda was the guest of the Chogyal of Sikkim, he visited the Hermit Abbot of Lachen in his mountain retreat near Thangu, at an altitude of 13000 feet in the Sikkim Himalayas.
LamaAnagarikaGovinda was born Ernst Lothar Hoffman in Waldheim, Germany (old kingdom of Saxony) in 1898, the son of a German father and a Bolivian mother.
In 1931 Govinda attended a Buddhist conference in Darjeeling, intending to affirm the purity of the Theravadin tradition against the Mahayana, which in his view, had degenerated into "a system of demon-worship and weird beliefs." He little realized that the trip was to alter his life.
One, of course, is LamaGovinda, the other is Freda Houlston Bedi (1911-1977), wife of Baba Bedi, and known as Sister Palmo (Karma Tsultrim Khechog Palmo), the FIRST Western woman ever to formally enter the Tibetan sangha.
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