Nicholas Vreeland
Nicholas Vreeland, Rato Khensur Thupten Lhundup | |
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Khen Rimpoche Nicholas Vreeland at Rato Dratsang, Mundgod, in the south Indian state of Karnataka. | |
| Title | Khensur Rinpoche |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Switzerland |
| Nationality | American |
| Parent(s) | Frederick Vreeland Elizabeth Breslauer Tompkins |
| Education | Groton School, American University of Paris, New York University, Rato Dratsang |
| Occupation | Buddhist Monk |
| Relatives | Diana Vreeland (grandmother) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Tibetan Buddhism |
| School | Gelug |
| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Khyongla Rato Rinpoche |
| Based in | Rato Dratsang |
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Nicholas Vreeland, also known as Rato Khensur Thupten Lhundup, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk and the former abbot of Rato Dratsang, a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist monastery reestablished in India. Vreeland is also a photographer. He is the son of Ambassador Frederick Vreeland and grandson of Diana Vreeland, former editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine and special consultant to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, where she set the "standard for costume exhibitions globally."
Vreeland spends his time between India and the United States, where he is the Director of Kunkhyab Thardo Ling—The Tibet Center, New York City's oldest Tibetan Buddhist center. He is also the first Westerner His Holiness the Dalai Lama appointed Abbot of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, one of the important Tibetan government monasteries under his authority.
Monk With A Camera, a documentary film about Vreeland, was released in 2014.