Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (born February 1940, Kahm, Tibet—died April 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) was the abbot of the Surmang Monastery in Tibet and founder of Shambhala International, which was established in the United States in 1971 to disseminate Buddhist teachings in the West.

In 1974, he founded Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado, establishing an academic program that combined contemplative studies with traditional Western academics.

Publications

• Chögyam_Trungpa#Bibliography (Wikipedia)

Further Reading

• Chögyam Trungpa, Born in Tibet, George Allen & Unwin, 1966
• Diana J. Mukpo, Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chögyam Trungpa (Boston: Shambhala, 2006)

Videos

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Selected videos:

• Surrendering Your Aggression -Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche --Shambhala

  Description: Aggression not in the sense of that you're angry, you keep on loosing temper. But aggression in the sense of fundamental obstacle. ...surrendering, seems to be the only way to overcome aggression. Naropa University 1975 ©1975 by Diana J. Mukpo.

• Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche About Tibet, Materialism and Openness

  Description: In this short video we hear Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche talk about Tibet. This is an excerpt from a much longer talk Rinpoche gave about meditation.
  Audio is extract from: Talk on Meditation By Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche - May 10, 1971 and video material from National Archives