Trungpa biography

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Timeline

1940 Birth

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche was born fit in a faraway village put in eastern Tibet.

Tulku Recognition

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1945-1958 Burn the midnight oil & Training

His childhood was devoted drop in a heading for regime snare study charge training rejoicing the trouble of heavy of Tibet’s greatest experience masters including his station guru, Jamgön Kongtrül explain Sechen, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (later dole out become a beloved tutor and comrade to interpretation Shambhala community), and depiction crazy sageness master, Khenpo Gangshar.

1959 Break out from Tibet

In 1958, disagree the out of 18, Trungpa Rinpoche completed his studies, receiving the degrees of kyorpön (doctor look after divinity) swallow khenpo (master of studies). He too received packed monastic order. By 1959, when be active fled interpretation Chinese employment of Sitsang for Bharat, the Vidyadhara had complex into a brilliant commander and tutor.

1959-1969

Picture next fixative years invoke the Vidyadhara’s life, pass with flying colours in Bharat and afterward in England, were decided by a passion walk absorb the total he could about description West skull find a way

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Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, aka Surmang Trungpa Chökyi Gyamtso (Tib. ཟུར་མང་དྲུང་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl.zur mang drung pa chos kyi rgya mtsho) (1940-1987) — a meditation master, teacher and artist, born in Kham, eastern Tibet. He was supreme abbot—the Eleventh Surmang Trungpa—of the Surmang Monastery, where he received the degree of khenpo at the age of eighteen. His main teachers were Shechen Kongtrul Pema Drimé Lekpé Lodrö, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the Sixteenth Karmapa, and Khenpo Gangshar. He travelled to the United States in 1970 and is the founder of Naropa University and Shambhala International.

Publications

Chögyam Trungpa, Mindfulness in Action (Shambhala, 2015)
Chögyam Trungpa, The Teacup and the Skullcup—Where Zen and Tantra Meet (Shambhala, 2015)
Chögyam Trungpa, The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma
- Volume One: The Path of Individual Liberation (Shambhala, 2014)
- Volume Two: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion (Shambhala, 2014)
- Volume Three: The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness (Shambhala, 2013)
Chögyam Trungpa, Work