In 1970, after a break with his fellow lama Akong Tulku Rinpoche, Trungpa moved to the United States at the invitation of several students.

Upon moving to the United States in 1970, Trungpa traveled around North America, gaining renown for his unique ability to present the essence of the highest Buddhist teachings in a form readily understandable to western students.

In 1969 Ray encountered Chögyam Trunpa ’ s autobiography entitled “ Born in Tibet .” In an unpublished interview Ray recounts knowing immediately that this was his teacher, though he had to wait until 1970 for Trungpa to arrive in the U. S. in order to meet him.

A turning point came for Keyes when he visited Trungpa at his center in Barnet, Vermont at Christmas 1970 and discussed with Trungpa the Buddhist notion that the mind's reaction rather than external circumstances creates personal unhappiness.

The community of Chogyam Trungpa originated in 1970 with his arrival in North America from Scotland.

In 1973, Trungpa established Vajradhatu, encompassing all his North American institutions, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Tibetan lamas such as the Karmapa ( Rangjung Rigpe Dorje ), Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Geshe Wangyal, Geshe Lhundub Sopa, Dezhung Rinpoche, Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin, Tarthang Tulku, Lama Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche all established teaching centers in the West from the 1970s.

Varela became a Tibetan Buddhist in the 1970s, initially studying, together with Keun-Tshen Goba, with the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Vajradhatu and Shambhala Training, and later with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a Nepalese meditation master of higher tantras.

Upon the death of Chögyam Trungpa, the leadership of Vajradhatu was first carried on by his American disciple, appointed regent and Dharma heir, Ösel Tendzin ( Thomas Rich ), and then by Trungpa's eldest son and Shambhala heir, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

Vajradhatu was the name of the umbrella organization of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, one of the first Tibetan Buddhist lamas to visit and teach in the West.

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.

* Chronicles Radio: Ken Green How Chogyam Trungpa created Vajradhatu and Shambhala society and government

He was teacher in Residence at Shambhala Mountain Center from 1996 – 2004, and co-founded the Dharma Ocean Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the practice, study and preservation of the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the practice lineage he embodied.

Other high Kagyu lamas who support Ogyen Trinley Dorje include the Ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche ; the Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche ; the Seventh Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and his Nalandabodhi organization ; the Twelfth Surmang Trungpa Rinpoche ; the Seventh Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche ; the Third Tenga Rinpoche ; the Third Bardor Tulku Rinpoche ; the Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche ; the Venerable Bokar Rinpoche ; the Venerable Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche ( abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra ); Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and his organization, Shambhala International ; the Venerable Drupon Rinpoche, and Lama Norlha Rinpoche, among others.

* Trungpa, Chögyam ( 1973 ).

On September 28, 1986, Trungpa, in failing health due to the auto accident in his youth and to years of heavy alcohol use, suffered cardiac arrest, subsequent to which his condition deteriorated further, requiring intensive care at the hospital, then at his home, and finally back at the hospital in mid-March 1987, where he died on April 4.

Trungpa Rinpoche appointed Ani Pema director of the Boulder Shambhala Center ( then Boulder Dharmadhatu ) in Colorado in the early 1980s.

In 1974, at Rinpoche ’ s request, Ray relocated to Boulder, Colorado – then the center of Trungpa Rinpoche ’ s community – in order to teach at Naropa University.

He then returned to Florida, became involved with the Humanistic Psychology Association and was exposed to teachings such as those of Chogyam Trungpa and Alan Watts.

In 1974, Trungpa founded the Naropa Institute, which later became Naropa University, in Boulder, Colorado.

In 1974, Trungpa invited the Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage, to come to the west and offer teachings.

In 1974 the Kagyu Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa predicted that " Buddhism will come to the West as psychology ".

Chögyam Trungpa also founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado in 1974.

In 1974, with Trungpa, Ginsberg, and others, Waldman founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado ( now Naropa University ), where she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's famous Summer Writing Program.

Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and Oxford University scholar Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda.

Among Holman ’ s first teaching jobs was a stint in July of 1991 at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which had been founded at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado by Chogyam Trungpa, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman in 1974.

At the time of Trungpa Rinpoche ’ s death in 1987, Ray was professor of Buddhist Studies at Naropa University with, in addition, a half-time appointment in the Religious studies department at the University of Colorado.

Naropa University was founded by Chögyam Trungpa, an exiled Tibetan tulku who was a Karma Kagyu and Nyingma lineage holder, and scholar of comparative religion at Oxford University in England.

Trungpa asked poets Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, John Cage and Diane di Prima to found a poetics department at Naropa during the first summer session.

Trungpa asked Marvin Casper to restructure the Maitri program for use at Naropa as a full-fledged graduate degree program in contemplative psychology.

In 1979 student editor Tom Clark published ‘’ The Great Naropa Poetry Wars ”, revealing that during a 1975 Halloween party, Trungpa had ordered the poet W. S.

Similarly, the famous Kagyu and Nyingma Trungpa tülku, tertön, abbot and meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – well-known for introducing Vajrayana teachings to the Occident, founding Naropa University ( the first accredited Buddhist university in the United States ), creating the system of Shambhala Training and for his friendship with many important figures of the Beat movement – practiced and espoused for his students what he deemed " mindful drinking ".

Dutsi-til Monastery is being steadily reestablished under the leadership of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, the spiritual leader of Shambhala Buddhism and son of Chögyam Trungpa, the 11th Surmang Trungpa.

In addition to increasingly teaching programs with and for Chögyam Trungpa, Ray also served on the Nalanda Translation Committee, which translated many texts from Tibetan into English.

Rigdzin Shikpo went on to continue Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings from a primarily Nyingma rather than a Kagyü point of view in the Longchen Foundation.

In 2005 Dharma Ocean Foundation was launched as the educational nonprofit through which Trungpa Rinpoche ’ s teachings would be disseminated via Ray, and in 2006 Shambhala International made the separation official.

The Foundation was also responsible for the arrangements and logistics of the 2001 visit of Trungpa Tulku XI's son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

* Buddhist author Chogyam Trungpa includes the category " not knowing what you want.

* 1939 – Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation instructor ( d. 1987 )

The Tibetan Buddhist lama Chögyam Trungpa emphasizes that cessation is a personal experience.

* Jealousy among the Sangha quoting from Jeremy Haywards book on Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa.

Maha Ati is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa, a master of the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche ( Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa ; February 28, 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.

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Born in the Kham region of Tibet in February 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.

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.

Already installed as the head of the Surmang monasteries in eastern Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa followed the Dalai Lama who fled Tibet during the ultimately unsuccessful 1959 Tibetan uprising against the Chinese communists.

From 1959-1963, by appointment of the Dalai Lama, Chögyam Trungpa served as the spiritual advisor for the Young Lamas Home School in Dalhousie, India.

In exile in India, Trungpa began his study of English.

Shortly after his move to Scotland, a variety of experiences, including a car accident that left him partially paralyzed on the left side of his body, led Trungpa to the decision to give up his monastic vows and work as a lay teacher.

Trungpa was one of the first teachers to introduce the esoteric practice of the Vajrayana to the West.

According to Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, " The one who mainly spread the Vajrayana in the West was Trungpa Rinpoche.

" In contrast to its traditional presentation in Tibet, where the esoteric practices are largely the domain of the monastic sangha, in America Trungpa introduced the Vajrayana to the lay sangha.

According to a former student, Stephen Butterfield, " Trungpa told us that if we ever tried to leave the Vajrayana, we would suffer unbearable, subtle, continuous anguish, and disasters would pursue us like furies " Other Vajrayana teachers, as well, also warn their students about the dangers of the esoteric path.

Trungpa also founded more than 100 meditation centers throughout the world.