David Karma Choephel, Thrangu Rinpoche’s translator, conducts a practice session of a Guru Yoga Sadhana practiced by Thrangu Rinpoche's students at the 2006 Vajra Vidya Retreat in Topsham, Maine. David Karma Choephel recently attended and graduated from the Shedra program at Namo Buddha in Nepal and spent time translating and working with the 17th Karmapa at Thrangu Rinpoche’s Vajra Vidya Retreat center in Sarnath.