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Chronicles Holiday Sampler Here are a few of our most visited pages from the past ten years 1974 Seminary Filmed and edited by Vicki Genson 
Vajradhatu seminary, a twelve-week program of practice and study, was the principal training ground for Trungpa Rinpoche's North American students. During his lifetime, the Vidyadhara conducted thirteen seminaries starting in 1973. -Watch this video |
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Being Tara, Recollections of dharma art A slideshow with Jack Niland, designed by Jeff Wigman 
Jack draws from his collection of the Vidyadhara's own sketches and diagrams to illuminate the visual dharma principles and training he received. We would like to express our gratitude to Jack for preserving this original artwork by Chogyam Trungpa, and for remembering and passing on the extraordinary teachings and instructions he received. -Watch this slideshow |
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Khyentse Rinpoche's advice to teenagers [audio: 21:59] 
One last word. Now, I hate to use the word discipline. The trouble is this is the one thing that you don't want to hear, discipline ... But even to make a cappuccino, you need a discipline ... you need a discipline, of course. Skateboarding, all these things, they all need discipline. In our modern society, one of the biggest problems is depression, really really feeling down and depressed, and people turning to drugs and alcohol and all of that. If you really look into the root of the depression, it is because of lack of discipline. Listen to Khyentse Rinpoche -Watch this slideshow |
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Wedding log 
Photographs from the Sakyong and Khandro Tseyang's wedding by Marvin Moore and Michael Wood |
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Conversation with Kenneth Green 
He began his spiritual journey, as a disciple of Swami Satchidananda in the mid-1960s. In this first of a series of Chronicles interviews to follow, Ken talks about his life in the early counter-culture days of NYC, his years with the Integral Yoga Institute, and the beginnings of his close friendship with Thomas Rich, AKA: Narayana, later known as the Vajra Regent Osel Tendzin. -Read the interview with Ken |
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Conversation with Reggie Ray 
In this conversation with Julia Sagebien, Dr. Reggie Ray talks about his training with Trungpa Rinpoche, the process which led him to start teaching and taking on students, and the view and practice of dharma that he presents to his students at Dharma Ocean Foundation. -Listen to the interview |
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Valentine's Day Edition 2007 
A recollection from Larry Mermelstein Excerpt: On this particular occasion, I was meeting with Rinpoche in his office, and it was just the two of us. I don't remember what we were meeting about, but as we were finishing up our business, he turned to me and said, "So how's your love life?" -Visit the page |
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Western thangka painting Jack Niland discusses thangka painting under the direction of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in the Summer of 1971. 
Because we live in the West, and he wanted to make thangkas that sort of fit into the Western look--fit into the Western mind. When you look at something like a Tibetan thangka, you see it as a cultural artifact--something that belongs in a museum rather than something that is living. Rinpoche was trying to develop a whole look for Buddhism in the West, because the West has a different scale and different materials. So he wanted to use Western scale and Western materials and a whole Western look to do that. So, he wanted it to be contemporary, living -Visit the page |