![]() ![]() In exile in India, Trungpa began his study of English. In 1954, shortly after giving the monastic vows, Karmapa turned to Trungpa and said, "In the future you will bring Dharma to the West." At the time, his students wondered what in the world could he be talking about. Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa was known for seeing the future and made plans accordingly. In 2016 accumulated research and survivors’ stories were published in a full retelling of the story, and later in the year preliminary talks began on the funding and production of a movie.Įarly teachings in the West Part of a series on More recent analysis has shown the journey to be directly comparable to such sagas as Shackleton’s 1914/17 Antarctic Expedition. confirmed details of the journey and supplied their personal accounts. In 2012, five survivors of the escape in Nepal, Scotland and the U.S. īetween 20, independent Canadian and French researchers using satellite imagery tracked and confirmed Trungpa’s escape route. After reaching India, on Januthe party was flown to a refugee camp. Trungpa, the monastics and about 70 refugees managed to cross the river under heavy gunfire, then, eating their leather belts and bags to survive, they climbed 19,000 feet over the Himalayas before reaching the safety of Pema Ko. Sometimes lost, sometimes traveling at night, after three months’ trek they reached the Brahmaputra River. Forced to abandon their animals, over half the journey was on foot as the refugees journeyed through an untracked mountain wilderness to avoid the PLA. Trungpa started with Akong Rinpoche and a small party of monastics, but as they traveled people asked to join until the party eventually numbered 300 refugees, from the elderly to mothers with babies – additions which greatly slowed and complicated the journey. After spending the winter in hiding, he decided definitively to escape after learning that his monastery had been destroyed. ![]() Masked in his account in Born in Tibet to protect those left behind, the first, preparatory stage of his escape had begun a year earlier, when he fled his home monastery after its occupation by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). On April 23, 1959, twenty-year-old Trungpa set out on an epic nine-month escape from his homeland. Chögyam Trungpa was also trained in the Nyingma tradition, the oldest of the four schools, and was an adherent of the ri-mé ("nonsectarian") ecumenical movement within Tibetan Buddhism, which aspired to bring together and make available all the valuable teachings of the different schools, free of sectarian rivalry.Īt the time of his escape from Tibet, Trungpa was head of the Surmang group of monasteries. He was deeply trained in the Kagyu tradition and received his khenpo degree at the same time as Thrangu Rinpoche they continued to be very close in later years. ![]() Trungpa ( Tibetan: དྲུང་པ་, Wylie: Drung-pa) means "attendant". The name Chögyam is a contraction of Chökyi Gyamtso ( Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Chos-kyi Rgya-mtsho), which means "Ocean of Dharma". Among his three main teachers were Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen, HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and Khenpo Gangshar. Biography Early years Khenpo Gangshar (left) and Chögyam Trungpaīorn in the Nangchen region of Tibet in March 1939, Chögyam Trungpa was eleventh in the line of Trungpa tülkus, important figures in the Kagyu lineage, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Some of his teaching methods and actions, particularly his heavy drinking, womanizing, and the physical assault of a student and his wife, caused controversy during his lifetime and afterward. Recognized both by Tibetan Buddhists and by other spiritual practitioners and scholars as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan 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.Īmong his contributions are the translation of numerous Tibetan Buddhist texts, the introduction of the Vajrayana teachings to the West, and a presentation of the Buddhadharma largely devoid of ethnic trappings. ![]() He was 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. Pema Chödrön, Allen Ginsberg, Reginald Ray, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Peter Lieberson, David Nichtern, José Argüelles, Francisco Varela, and Joseph GoguenĬhögyam Trungpa ( Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa Ma– April 4, 1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. ![]()
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