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.

" However, she said had she known that Trungpa began having sexual relations with women at age thirteen, she would not have declined, considering that in the higher stages of Tibetan Buddhist tantra, sexual relations ( especially with tertöns ) are a means of enhancing spiritual insights.

Although he had not gone through the several years ' worth of study and preparatory mind training required, Merwin was insistent he attend, and Trungpa eventually granted his request – along with his girlfriend as well.

At the Halloween party, after many, including Trungpa himself, had taken off their clothes, Merwin was asked to join the event, but refused.

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 In an unpublished interview Ray recounts knowing immediately that this was his teacher, though he had to wait until 1970 for Trungpa to arrive in the U. S. in order to meet him.

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.

He complained that Trungpa had successfully captured some of the best minds of his generation, yet he believed their fascination with Trungpa's presentation of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan theocracy created a dangerous exclusivity and elitism in literature.

Keyes lived for a few months with two students who had been influenced by Trungpa and Ram Dass.

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.

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.

Awakened by the vision of these predecessors in the lineage, this my present lineage holder, Chökyi Gyamtso Trungpa Rinpoche, supreme incarnate being, has magnificently carried out the vajra holders discipline in the land of America, bringing about the liberation of students and ripening them in the dharma.

Suzuki Roshi, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and another important exponent of Buddhism to western students, described Trungpa Rinpoche in the context of a talk about emptiness:

My feelings about Trungpa have been mixed from the start.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who represented both the Kagyupa and Nyingmapa lineages, and leader of the modern Eclectic School ( Ris-med ) of Tibetan Buddhism in the diaspora, inspired by the Greek philosophers of the polis, used the Gesar epic detailed tales about an idealized nomadic government formed by the Mukpo clan, which constructed a nomadic confederation of imperial reach, to develop a model of a Tibetan polity.

* Prediction Letter about the future of the Kagyu Lineage by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche ( Actualized )

* Wednesday 04. of August 2010 Shamarpa speaks about Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoché ’ s divination

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

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.

* Jealousy among the Sangha Quoting Jeremy Hayward from his book on Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa

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.

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

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.

Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa.

* Chögyam Trungpa / Dorje Dradül of Mukpo: Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala ( 1999 ), 2nd edition 2001,, Shambhala Root Text.

A disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she is an ordained nun, author, and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage which Trungpa founded.

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.

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

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.

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.

Controversial lama Chögyam Trungpa, the founder of the Shambhala meditation movement, claimed in his teachings that his intention was to strip the ethnic baggage away from traditional methods of working with the mind and to deliver the essence of those teachings to his western students.

Both the Nalandabodhi sangha, which was founded by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, and the Shambhala sanghas founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche have stated that they are welcoming of all sexual orientations.

* Hayward, Jeremy ( 2008 ) " Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa " ISBN 0-86171-546-2

Chögyam Trungpa, a Tibetan Buddhist lama, used the " Shambhala " name for certain of his teachings, practices, and organizations ( e. g. Shambhala Training, Shambhala International, Shambhala Publications ), referring to the root of human goodness and aspiration.

Whenever I meet with difficulties, I begin to understand – sometimes before solving the problem, sometimes afterward – why Trungpa Rinpoche did some unconventional things.

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.

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.

Chögyam Trungpa also received support from one of his own main teachers, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, head of the Nyingma lineage.

Two former students of Trungpa, John Steinbeck IV and his wife, wrote a sharply critical memoir of their lives with him in which they claim that, in addition to alcohol, Trungpa used $ 40, 000 a year worth of cocaine, and used Seconal to come down from the cocaine.

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.

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.

Other modern adherents include the late 16th Karmapa and Dudjom Rinpoche, both of whom gave extensive teachings from the works of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro, as well as Akong Rinpoche who, with the late Chogyam Trungpa helped establish Tibetan Buddhism in Britain.

Chögyam Trungpa coined the term spiritual materialism with his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism from talks explaining Buddhism given while opening the Karma Dzong meditation center in Boulder, Colorado.

He has received Vajra Yogini initiation from His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje of the Karma Kagyu lineage and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the 11th Trungpa Tulku.

A lineage was also transmitted from Kobun Chino Roshi to the Tibetan Buddhist sangha of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and is now practiced at all Shambhala retreat centers.

Shambhala Buddhism partly derives from the teachings of Shambhala, as originally proclaimed by Chögyam Trungpa, which state that " there is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in the world, which is the innate wakefulness of human beings.

Certain Shambhala practices derive from specific terma texts of Trungpa Rinpoche's such as Letter of the Black Ashe, Letter of the Golden Key that Fulfills Desire, Golden Sun of the Great East, and the Scorpion Seal of the Golden Sun, in long and short versions.

Trungpa Rinpoche is believed by his students to have received these teachings directly from Gesar of Ling, an emanation of Padmasambhava, and the Rigden kings.

The three famous Tulkus from Zurmang are well known with the name GharTengTrungSum ( Gharwang, Tenga, Trungpa Rinpoche ).

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

Trungpa further stated " There is the possibility that members of the sangha, Western people, can take over from the Tibetans ".