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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.

Recognized both by Tibetan Buddhists and by other spiritual practitioners and scholars as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, he was a major, albeit controversial, figure in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method.

During this period, he conducted thirteen Vajradhatu Seminaries, three-month residential programs at which he presented a vast body of Buddhist teachings in an atmosphere of intensive meditation practice.

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

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.

The cocaine use, say the Steinbecks, was kept secret from the wider Vajradhatu community.

Incorporates Vajradhatu, an international association of Buddhist meditation and study centers, now known as Shambhala International.

Conducts first annual Vajradhatu Seminary, a three-month advanced practice and study program.

Establishes the Kalapa Court in Boulder, Colorado, as his residence and a cultural center for the Vajradhatu community.

1986: Moves his home and the international headquarters of Vajradhatu to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Trungpa entered the USA in 1970, established the Vajradhatu organization in 1973, and then in 1974, established Naropa Institute under the Nalanda Foundation.

Initially, the Nalanda Foundation and Vajradhatu were closely linked, having nearly identical boards of directors.

One of Wulsin's first acts was to formally separate Naropa from Vajradhatu.

Ties with Vajradhatu were further weakened with the physical relocation of Vajradhatu's main center to Halifax, and then by Trungpa's death in 1987.

( This was during the 3rd Vajradhatu Seminary held in Snowmass, Colorado.

The Abbey is associated with the Vajradhatu Buddhist Church of Canada and Shambhala International.

This tantra explains the process of the visualization of the Vajradhatu Mandala, which is one of the most visually stylized of Buddhist mandalas.

The Ankusha is the symbolic attribute for the visualization of the Bodhisattva Vajraraja, an emanation within the retinue of Vajradhatu.

After the year 2000, with the merging of the secular teachings of Shambhala and the Buddhist teachings of Vajradhatu into Shambhala Buddhism, completion of Shambhala Vajrayana Seminary ( which itself requires taking Buddhist refuge and bodhisattva vows, as well as Buddhist vajrayana samaya vows ) became a condition for receiving the highest Shambhala teachings, such as those of Werma and the Scorpion Seal Retreat.

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.

Eventually, the Vajradhatu organization was renamed Shambhala International by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

When Vajradhatu was incorporated in Colorado in 1973, it consolidated Tail of the Tiger, Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, a retreat facility in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado ; and Karma Dzong, an urban meditation center in Boulder, Colorado.

Vajradhatu hosted visits by the Sixteenth Karmapa ( head of the Kagyu Lineage ) in 1974, Khyentse Rinpoche ( head of the Nyingma Lineage ) in 1976, and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama in 1981.

In 1986 he moved the international headquarters of Vajradhatu to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he died the following year.

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