Chogyam Trungpa
| Chögyam Trungpa | |
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Chögyam Trungpa before 1959
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| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Vajrayana |
| Lineage | Kagyu and Nyingma |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | Tibetan |
| Born |
March 5, 1939 Nangchen, Kham region, Tibet |
| Died | April 4, 1987 (aged 48) Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Spouse | Lady Diana Mukpo |
| Children | Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Tagtrug (Taggie) Mukpo, Gesar Mukpo |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | Tulku |
| Predecessor | Chökyi Nyinche |
| Successor | Choseng Trungpa |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher |
Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Khenpo Gangshar |
| Reincarnation | Trungpa Tulku |
| Students | Pema Chödrön, Allen Ginsberg, Reginald Ray, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Peter Lieberson, David Nichtern, José Argüelles and Francisco Varela |
| Website | http://www.shambhala.org/ |
Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; March 5, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.
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 Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method.
Among his contributions are the translation of numerous Tibetan texts, the introduction of the Vajrayana teachings to the West, and a presentation of the Buddhadharma largely devoid of ethnic trappings. Trungpa coined the term crazy wisdom. Some of his teaching methods and actions were the topic of controversy during his lifetime and afterwards.
Born in the Nangchen, Kham 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. Among his three main teachers were Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen, HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and Khenpo Gangshar.
The name Chögyam is a contraction of Chökyi Gyamtso (Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wylie: Chos-kyi Rgya-mtsho), which means "ocean of dharma". Trungpa (Tibetan: དྲུང་པ་, Wylie: Drung-pa) means "attendant". 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. 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.
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