Francesca Fremantle is a Sanskrit and Tibetan scholar and translator, and a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche for many years. Fremantle worked closely with Rinpoche on the 1975 translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. She is the author of Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
To think of Trungpa Rinpoche it is not just to remember an extraordinary man, but to be drawn into the depth and vastness of his mind, to glimpse a state of...
Julia speaks with Bill Wooding about being gay in the early Vajradhatu/Shambhala community, about the history of "Queer Dharma", and about the efforts made by a number of North American dharma groups to welcome and include the LGBTQ community as part of their sangha.