1939-03-05 Kham, Tibet
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.
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche | Self (archive footage) | 2011-11-25 | |
Zeitgeist | Self (voice) (archive sound) | 2007-06-01 |