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Tributes
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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
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Joan Halifax Roshi
Joan Halifax was ordained by Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and became a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the lamp transmission as a dharma teacher from Thich Nhat Hanh, and given Inka, or dharma transmission, by Roshi Bernard Glassman. She is the founder and head teacher of the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Trungpa Rinpoche was a Buddhist visionary, an artist of great
imagination, a wild beardless prophet, and a man with a very human
heart. His brief and radical appearance in the Western dharmic
landscape opened up a vast horizon for many of us. Once embodied, he
is now free, and we are free to meet him in the land beyond duality,
a land that was always home for him. I met him in the early
seventies, and was sorry to see him leave us some brief but rich
fifteen years later. In those few years, he and his students spun
into being a mandala-world that continues to grow in depth and wisdom.
Joan Halifax
Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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