He had a number of notable students, among whom were Pema Chödrön, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Peter Lieberson, José Argüelles, David Nichtern, Ken Wilber, David Deida, Francisco Varela, and Joni Mitchell who portrayed Trungpa in the song " Refuge of the Roads " on her 1976 album Hejira.

In 1976, Trungpa Rinpoche began giving teachings, some of which were gathered and presented as Shambhala Training, inspired by his vision ( see terma ) of the legendary Kingdom of Shambhala.

In 1976 Trungpa Rinpoche began his cycle of Shambhala teachings and, with his students, manifesting forms of Shambhala society.

In 1972 Trungpa identified Thomas F. Rich ( an American with Buddhist name Ösel Tendzin ) as his dharma heir, and in a formal ceremony on August 22, 1976, Trungpa appointed Rich as Dorje Gyaltsap, Vajra Regent, and Director of the First Class of Vajradhatu.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

So began her 40 years of research on Peirce the mathematician and scientist, culminating in Eisele ( 1976, 1979, 1985 ).

* Colonial ( Amtrak 1976 ), an Amtrak train that began running between Newport News, Virginia and New York in 1976.

With her 1976 album All I Can Do, co-produced by herself with Porter Wagoner, Parton began taking more of an active role in production, and began specifically aiming her music in a more mainstream, pop direction.

In 1976, at the age of 14, Boztepe began studying martial arts, including judo, Shotokan karate, wrestling, Muay Thai, and traditional boxing.

Gairy won re-election in Grenada's first general election as an independent state in 1976 ; however, the opposition New Jewel Movement refused to recognize the result, claiming the poll was fraudulent, and so began working towards the overthrow of the Gairy regime by revolutionary means.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) was proclaimed by Polisario on 28 February 1976, and Libya began to recognize the SADR as the legitimate government of Western Sahara starting 15 April 1980.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) was proclaimed by Polisario on 28 February 1976, and Libya began to recognize the SADR as the legitimate government of Western Sahara starting 15 April 1980.

Writing began in December 1976, with a first draft completed by mid-1977.

* In Issue # 3 ( January 1976, shortly after Monty Python began being broadcast in the U. S .) of the comic book title Batman Family the joint exploits of Batgirl ( Barbara Gordon ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ) the story " Isle of a Thousand Thrills " borrowed the scenario of a land where anything anybody thinks of is quickly brought to life.

By the 1970s some Native American film roles began to show more complexity, such as those in Little Big Man ( 1970 ), Billy Jack ( 1971 ), and The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), which depicted Native Americans in minor supporting roles.

It began in 1976 with the hiring of Charles Digregorio, who had studied at Columbia with Nevins.

After launching Battle, Mills began developing a new boys ' title, Action, launched in 1976.

The cult following did not begin until the film began its midnight run at the Waverly Theater in New York on April 1, 1976.

When Nixon left in 1973, Tom Lavery began drawing the strip, who was then followed by Frank McDiarmid in 1976.

The ARRL began issuing DXCC RTTY Awards on November 1, 1976.

Later, in 1972, he began managing Anni-Frid Lyngstad, and finally in 1976 Agnetha Fältskog ( until December 1975, Fältskog was still bound to Cupol / CBS Records under a contract ).

The modern era of wine production began in the 1970s with the establishment of several wineries and the passage of the New York Farm Winery Act of 1976.

The franchise began play in 1976 in the NFC West division but switched conferences with the Buccaneers after one season and joined the AFC West.

The first formal technology and design effort for a solar sail began in 1976 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a proposed mission to rendezvous with Halley's Comet.

On December 17, 1976, the rechristened WTCG-TV Super-Station began to broadcast old movies, situation comedy reruns, cartoons, and sports nationwide to cable-TV subscribers.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

* On May 24, 1976, supersonic air travel between Dulles and Europe began with the arrival of a British Airways Concorde from London and an Air France Concorde from Paris.

The diglossia problem was brought to an end in 1976 ( Law 306 / 1976 ), when Dimotikí was declared the official language of Greece and it is still in use for all official purposes and in education, having incorporated features of Katharevousa, giving birth to Standard Greek.

In July 1976, Tureaud's platoon sergeant punished him by giving him the detail of chopping down trees during training camp at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, but did not tell him how many trees, so Tureaud single-handedly chopped down over seventy trees from 6: 30 am to 10: 00 am, until a shocked major superseded the sergeant's orders.

The street where the Olympic Stadium in Montreal is located ( which hosted the 1976 Summer Olympic Games ) was named after Pierre de Coubertin, giving the stadium the address 4549 Pierre de Coubertin Avenue.

Sharkey was also responsible for giving the band their first name: at the introduction to a gig at Saint Joseph's Secondary School in Derry on 16 March 1976, Feargal Sharkey was asked the name of the band and quickly replied " The Hot Rods ".

Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, in 1976 briefly labeled Derrida's 1967 criticism in Cogito and the History of Madness, as " facile, nihilistic objections ," without giving further argumentation.

* 1976: Brighton College of Education ( the teacher training college ) merges with Brighton Polytechnic, giving the polytechnic a campus at Falmer.

In August 1976, Leslie Halliwell described the film as a " heerfully overlong and slow-moving western but ... ll very watchable for those with time to spare ", giving it ** ( 2 stars out of 4 ), a rare high rating.

On July 1, 1976, the U-2 joined the SR-71 in the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing giving the unit two of the most unique aircraft in the world.

Then Professor Marvin Zelen, a statistician and associate of the recently founded Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP, now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI )), proposed in a 1976 article in the same periodical that, in order to eliminate any demographic anomaly, Gauquelin randomly pick 100 athletes from his data-set of 2, 088 and check the birth / planet correlations of a sample of babies born at the same times and places in order to establish a control group, giving the base-rate ( chance ) expectation for comparison ( The 100 random athletes later expanded into a subsample of 303 athletes ).

After Grace Stoen later defected in 1976 and began divorce proceedings against Tim Stoen in 1977, in order to avoid potentially giving up the boy in a custody dispute with Grace, Jones ordered Tim to take John to Guyana in February 1977.

He retired from the stage at age eighty-nine in May 1976, giving his last concert at London's Wigmore Hall, where he had first played nearly seventy years before.

* October 2: In his last start of the 1976 season, Fidrych got his 19th win, beating the Brewers, 4-1, giving up five hits in a game that lasted 1 hour and 46 minutes.

It was formally abolished in England and Wales in 1976, giving way to the Comprehensive System.

In this post, McFarlane dealt with intelligence exchanges with the People's Republic of China from 1973 to 1976, giving detailed intelligence briefings to China at the time of the Sino-Soviet split.

The park, designed by architect Philip Johnson, was dedicated in 1976 to promote the concept of giving thanks as a universal, human value.

In February 2004 the Oxford English Dictionary rectified the listing giving Alan " Ollie " Gelfand credit as the name and originator behind the 1976 maneuver.

GM intermediates got a facelift for 1976, giving the Century quad rectangular headlamps and a taller, flatter grille.

He is praised for giving free universal education in 1976, free health care services and introduce old age pensions.

She has one daughter, Claire, her niece, whom she adopted in 1976 when Sally's sister, Claire's birth mother, moved to France and Claire's father died two days after giving permission for the adoption.

By early 1976, the original PLATO IV system had 950 terminals giving access to more than 3500 contact hours of courseware, and additional systems were in operation at CDC and Florida State University.

The Sahitya Akademi tried to make amends by giving him the denied award in 1976 for his last novel Meri Teri Usaki Baat.

Chicago X was released on June 14, 1976 to a receptive audience, especially after " If You Leave Me Now " had become such a big worldwide hit, giving Chicago their first UK chart album in years (# 21 ), though it missed # 1 in the US, resting at # 3.

The strip first appeared in the Tiger in 1954, before giving its name to a weekly ( and later monthly ) comic magazine, published by IPC and Fleetway from 1976 until 1995, in which it was the main feature.