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Ani Pema first met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972, and at the urging of Chime Rinpoche, she took him as her root guru (" Ani " is a Tibetan honorific for a nun ).

She studied with him from 1974 until his death in 1987.

Trungpa Rinpoche's son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, appointed Chödrön an acharya ( senior teacher ) shortly after assuming leadership of his father's Shambhala lineage in 1992.