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lionsroarThe Decision to Become a Buddhist
Taking refuge in the Buddha, the dharma and the sangha is something more than a ritual, wrote Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. By taking refuge, we are committing ourselves to freedom.
YouTubeAllen Ginsberg - Father Death Blues
Allen Ginsberg sings “Father Death Blues”, and relates two anecdotes on death involving his guru Trungpa Rinpoche. From the documentary “A Poet on the Lower ...
chronicleprojectChögyam the Translator
“...he used to amazing effect the fact that no one expected him to speak syntactically perfect English. Subtle, complex, and mind-opening ambiguities, as well as multiple shades and layers of meaning emerged easily from his often slippery sentence structures. ... Trungpa Rinpoche spoke our language, with simplicity and directness. The kind of students he attracted never imagined they would learn his language, let alone recite liturgies or study commentaries in Tibetan. It had to be in English, and there seemed to be little effort needed, since he taught so completely in our language.”
VimeoWhat Trungpa Rinpoche Accomplished
Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche reflects on Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's life and teachings
CHRONICLEPROJECTUncovering Hidden Treasure
From Lion’s Jaws retells the story of the escape that Rinpoche described in the last part of Born in Tibet. It includes crucial events and material he omitted from the original account, weaves in a trove of survivors’ recollections and adds commentary to clarify the significance of events.
Chronicle ProjectI Urge and I Request
Text by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche: “More and more, I think it is just so unfortunate that Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche died so young. If he were alive, if he were here, he could spontaneously, from his ocean-like wisdom mind, fish out some sort of method of torma offering that is applicable to non-Tibetan minds. And if he did that, all the lamas would be behind him, definitely all the Kagyu and Nyingma lamas.”
CHRONICLEPROJECTBurn Self Deception The Chronicles of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Burn Self Deception is Jim Lowrey's account of the day Trungpa Rinpoche got the Pygmies, and other community members, to stop smoking marijuana.
CHRONICLEPROJECTDzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on Trungpa Rinpoche
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche interviewed by Barry Boyce about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche just before the Transcending Madness teachings.
Chronicles ProjectThe Court
In this excerpt from Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chögyam Trungpa, Lady Diana describes life at 550 Mapleton Street in Boulder, the first Kalapa Court.
Chronicle ProjectBeing Tara
Unique and extraordinary visual dharma instructions from Trungpa Rinpoche
tzal.orgSelf-deception's game
Self-deception means trying to re-create a past experience again and again, instead of actually having the experience in the present moment. In order to have the experience now, one would have to give up the evaluation of how wonderful the past was, because it is this memory which keeps it distant. If we had the experience continuously, it would seem quite ordinary, and it is this ordinariness that we cannot accept. We keep ourselves busy remembering the wonderful experience of openness we had in the past. This is self-deception’s game. ~ Chögyam Trungpa in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
YouTubeCalligraphy of Chögyam Trungpa
Calligraphy of Chögyam Trungpa from the “Discovering Elegance” video, 1980.
ELEPHANTJOURNALJoni Mitchell re: Chögyam Trungpa “He snapped me out of [cocaine use].”
Joni Mitchell video: Refuge of the Road, a song for Chögyam Trungpa.
CHRONICLEPROJECTAcross the Himalayas
Here are entries from Trungpa Rinpoche's diary made during the final month of his arduous escape from Tibet.
webarquiveThe Way of Basic Sanity
A Brief Overview of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Perspective on Sutric Buddhism by Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
chroniclesHow I Met Rinpoche
Training of an American Buddhist Nun. The following conversation between Pema Chödrön and Walter Fordham took place in Halifax on 10 December 2003.
tzal.orgReturning to the world
You have to go beyond duality and you also have to go beyond nonduality at the same time. You have to return to duality: that is the final goal. It is like the ox-herding pictures: finally you return to the world, with a big belly and with the ox behind you. That picture, returning to the world, is the final point. So you have duality; then you discover nonduality because of duality; then you transcend both nonduality and duality because of them. ~ Chögyam Trungpa in The Teacup and the Skullcup
LevekunstMixing Fire and Water an Interview with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
An interview with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche from 1985, about the nature of Dzogchen and recognizing the naked state of knowing. When asked, his reply was, “What is the use of the tiny light of a firefly when the sun has already risen in the sky?” referring to Trungpa Rinpoche’s presence in the West.
SHAMBHALAMudra: Early Poems and Songs
A mudra is a symbolic gesture or action that gives physical expression to an inner state. This book of poetry and songs of devotion, written by Chögyam Trungpa between 1959 and 1971, is spontaneous and celebratory. This volume also includes the ten traditional Zen oxherding pictures accompanied by a unique commentary that offers an unmistakably Tibetan flavor. Fans of this renowned teacher will enjoy the heartfelt devotional quality of this early work.
VimeoRabjam Rinpoche Recalls Trungpa Rinpoche
Interview by Vivian Kurz and Mark Elliott; video recording by Mark Elliott. Location: Kathmandu 2017
CHRONICLEPROJECTWe Can Run!
Karme Choling, 1978. We were all excited that Rinpoche was coming to give a teaching program. I was 22 years old. I’d been on the staff at KCL for a year and…
tzal.orgQuotes by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Holder of the ultimate recognition, a bold, dramatic and utterly sweet-intense teacher for all us barbarians in this degenerate time.
Lion's RoarZen Mind, Vajra Mind
The late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche described Suzuki Roshi as his “accidental father” in America, and through their close friendship he gained great respect for the Zen tradition. In this talk, Chögyam Trungpa looks at the basic differences between Zen and tantra.
tzal.orgChogyam Trungpa Rinpoche on elegance
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness.
tzal.orgOverwhelming goal
Ignorance is the sense of having one particular aim and object and goal in mind. (+)
tzal.orgTake it or leave it
“The beautiful thing about Buddhism, if I may say so, is that Buddhists don't try to con you. They just present what they have, say it as it is, take it or leave it.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa, from “True Perception”
Lion's RoarBeyond Present, Past, and Future Is The Fourth Moment
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on meditation, the spiritual path, and a sense of basic being beyond relative time.
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