Nicholas Vreeland was educated in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, after which he pursued a career in photography. In the late sixties and early seventies, Nicholas worked as an assistant to Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. He was introduced to The Tibet Center in New York by John and Elizabeth Avedon, followed the teachings of Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and, after many years of study, became a monk in 1985. He was awarded a Geshe Degree (Doctorate of Divinity) in 1998. Nicholas now serves as director of The Tibet Center and was the editor of An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life, by the Dalai Lama. Nicholas is also founder of Photos for Rato, a series of fund-raisers that have been held in France, Italy, Germany, India, and the U.S., which underwrote, through the sale of his photos, a large part of the construction of Rato Monastery in India. He divides his time between The Tibet Center in New York and Rato Dratsang monastery in India. "

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