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Trungpa Rinpoche's Training the Mind Seminar: Talk One

Interview with
Khandro Rinpoche:
Part Two

Fifty years ago,
January 24, 1960:
Chogyam Trungpa arrives in India

Interview with
Khandro Rinpoche:
Part One

Chogyam Trungpa's Journal of the final weeks of the escape
updated most days from December 15 and January 24

Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche's upcoming visit to Europe and North America

Chronicles Highlights 2009

We are the warriors of Shambhala
A new song by Sakyong Mipham and Khandro Tseyang

Chogyam Trungpa on Meditation:
Talk Three (video)

Early December 1959, preparing to cross the Brahmaputra

Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 10: Sacred World

Scattered pearls
A brief encounter by Sarah Trefethen Whitehorn

Chogyam Trungpa on Meditation:
Talk Two (video)

Research Expedition to Prince Edward Island

Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 9: Work, Sex, and Money

You knocked over the musician!
A Brief Encounter by Mark Hazell

Meditation instruction from Chogyam Trungpa (video)
Meditation: The way of the Buddha, Talk One

Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche on Let Loose

Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 8: Emptiness, Wisdom, and Seeing Things as They Are

Jamgon Kongtrul Seminar talk 6
by Chogyam Trungpa (audio)

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Quick Charcoal
by William Gilkerson

Judith Lief
on Dispatches

Meditation in the
fourth moment
a talk by Chogyam Trungpa (audio)

Mark Szpakowski
on Dispatches

Meditation
from the Jan 2010 issue of the Sun

Chogyam Trungpa audio recording: Talk Four of the Jamgon Kongtrul Seminar is now online

Update: November 1959

Larry Mermelstein
on Dispatches: Part Two

Class 5 of the Essential Chogyam Trungpa:
The Battle of Ego, with Sherab Chodzin Kohn

Tashi—a member of Trungpa Rinpoche’s escape party—tells his story

Larry Mermelstein
on Dispatches: Part One

Mindfulness and Awareness, a talk by Clarke Warren

Halloween edition:
Chogyam Trungpa on spookiness

Thrangu Rinpoche
on Let Loose

Karmapa speaks of kindness on International Day of Climate Action

Lineage & Non-Theistic Devotion, a talk by Peter Volz

Arthur Borden's 49th day

The Sun of Wisdom
A guru-sadhana by Trungpa Rinpoche

Touch and Go
A documentary by Grant MacLean

Finding the route
Uncovering CTR's path
to India via Flight Simulator, Google Earth, and more

Dharma Classes
Karma, a talk to sangha teens by Ken Friedman

Gesar Mukpo
talks about Tulku

Rolpa Dorje and wife perish in torrential rainstorm

Jeanine Greenleaf
on Dispatches

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Letters of support

The Druk Sakyong Wangmo, Lady Diana Mukpo

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Tributes The tributes below were posted between April 4 and May 26, 2007 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Trungpa Rinpoche's parinirvana. Sangha tribute blog Tribute from posted Dilgo Khyentse May 26 Jetsun Kushok May 26 Yongey Mingyur May 26 Traleg Kyabgon May 26 James Gimian May 26 Martin Janowitz May 26 Robin Kornman May 26 Denault Blouin May 25 Susan Edwards -audio May 24 Walker Blaine May 23 Vajra Regent May 22 Dzogchen Ponlop May 21 Diana Torbert May 20 Greg Smith May 19 Tessa Pybus May 18 Reggie Ray May 17 Joshua Zim May 16 Ashoka Mukpo May 15 Tenzin Wangyal May 14 Bill Douglas May 13 Peter Volz May 12 Ani Pema Chödrön May 11 Shenpen Hookham May 9 Tsoknyi Rinpoche May 8 Barry Boyce May 7 Tulku Thondup May 6 Steve Gorn May 5 HH Dalai Lama May 4 Sam Bercholz May 3 Wendy Friedman May 2 Jakusho Kwong Roshi May 1 Fabrice Midal April 30 B Bash/S Gorn April 29 Sherab Chodzin Kohn April 28 Chokyi Nyima April 27 Joan Halifax Roshi April 26 A Waldman/D Rome April 25 Clarke Warren April 24 Kanjuro Shibata April 23 CTR Talk, 1975 April 22 Jigme Phuntsok April 21 Tom Coburn April 20 Tania Leontov April 19 Leonard Hortick April 18 Richard John April 17 Anne Burchardi April 16 Bardor Tulku April 15 Jerry Granelli April 14 Michael Chender April 13 Douglas Penick April 12 Carolyn Gimian April 11 Ato Rinpoche April 10 Eido Roshi April 9 Gina Stick April 8 Rigdzin Shikpo April 7 Gesar Mukpo April 6 Francesca Fremantle April 5 CTR Talk, 1979 April 4 Sakyong Mipham April 4 Lady Diana Mukpo April 4 Thrangu Rinpoche April 4 Dzongsar Khyentse April 4 Khenpo Rinpoche April 4 Richard Reoch April 4 Susan Edwards April 4 Peter Lieberson April 4

Welcome to this
pansangha tribute to
Trungpa Rinpoche

Cremation photos by Ray Ellis (enlarge)

Sunday, May 27: Bill McKeever, acharya and early director of Karme-Choling, remembers his early times with the Vidyadhara and the center

by Barbara Stewart

It was Bill's second dathun. At the end of his first -- the first dathun altogether, in 197_ -- he had thought himself a hero, more than a hero, and was filled with dismay when Rinpoche said: "The real practice starts when you leave."

In the third week of his second one, he suddenly panicked. "What am I doing here?" he asked himself. "These people are full of shit. I've got to get away." He ducked out, ran to his car and, too impatient to go by the road, drove it right across the hayfields in his haste -- where, after the rains, it got stuck in a muddy ditch. He gunned it. The wheels spun. "I was stuck," . . . [Continued]

About the Chronicles

The Chronicles are a celebration of the life of Vidyadhara the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the incomparable meditation teacher, artist, poet, translator, vajra master, and social visionary who, more than any other person, is credited with establishing the genuine path of buddhadharma in the West. The stories, interviews, photos, and sound files on this site are expressions of love and gratitude from his students and others who knew him, and are a part of the Chronicles of CTR.

The larger goals of the Chronicles are to tell the story of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's life in a detailed year-by-year account, to gather the oral history from those who knew him, and to preserve a record of his extraordinary legacy for future generations.

Our mission is to expand the general knowledge and understanding of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's life and teachings. We hope that you enjoy the site. We are always interested in new stories and articles, and we're happy to receive ideas, comments, complaints, etc. from our readers. Please contact us at chronicles@chronicleproject.com

The calligraphy at the top of this page Mukpo is by Trungpa Rinpoche; used here with the kind permission of Lady Diana Mukpo.