Chögyam Trungpa

Born: 1939-03-05

Chögyam Trungpa was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the 11th of the Trungpa tülkus, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and the myth of Shambhala as an enlightened society that was later called Shambhala Buddhism. He was a major figure in the dissemination of Buddhism in the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method.


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Zeitgeist

as Self (archive Sound) (voice) (as Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
Released: 2007-06-01

A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity,...

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Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2011-11-25

CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam...

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