My uncle Damchu Thenpel Rinpoche, the brother of the Vidyadhara, has just arrived here tonight. He lives in a place that requires a different visa, so we sent two jeeps to pick him up. He’s 54 years old and he’s not in very good health. He needs two monks to hold him up as he walks. He’s one of my closest relatives and I was very, very much looking forward to meeting him. So, tonight we met. He’s very, very dark, from the sun, but he looks amazingly like the Vidyadhara and we obviously had a very good connection. He is very big and strong. He brought his son and some other relatives and we all met. It was quite a wonderful moment. Then, my other relatives who were already here joined in, my mother’s two brothers and other relatives who had travelled with them from Lhasa. We were all in the room together. It was about 20 or 25 people altogether. They all want visas and I told them they could come over and they could stay with a certain Mr. & Mrs. Boyce, who would have plenty of room and it would be no problem.” – Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche