Harsh Splendour First Screening
In 1959 Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche led 300 refugees on a nine-month journey across Tibet to India – a journey now seen to rank among the greatest of history’s great escapes. Among those following him was the Washutsong family and their daughter Palya, aged 15. With music composed and performed by India Gailey and Jeff Reilly, narration by Grant MacLean, Harsh Splendour tells Palya’s story. Through HD satellite images and a flight simulator, we follow the route the refugees took, see the towering mountain terrain they crossed, the fearsome weather they faced. It is a journey to inspire us all.
Beyond Comprehension
Book Review: From Lion’s Jaws, Chögyam Trungpa’s Epic Journey to the West
by Grant MacLean
by Grant MacLean
Oxford Refuge for Buddhist Monks
Newspaper clippings from the UK press in 1964 describing CTR's escape from Tibet.
The Escape’s Place in History
For those of us with a connection to Trungpa Rinpoche and his teachings, the significance of his escape from Tibet has been about the...
Interview with Garap-la
Garap-la, one of Rinpoche's contemporaries in Tibet, tells the story of CTR's escape.
Touch and Go Premieres in Halifax
Chögyam Trungpa's first book, Born in Tibet, originally published in 1966, is a classic story of a great escape. It is an autobiographical account...
Out of Tibet
The story of the escape lead by the just-turned-twenty year old young man in far eastern Tibet, whom the world would later come to know as the Vidyadhara.
Finding the Escape Route
By Grant MacLean
Like many others, on re-reading Born in Tibet, I found that there were spiritual and inspirational layers I'd missed before. But it...
Trungpa Rinpoche’s Escape From Tibet: 50 Years Ago
Watch Touch and Go, a documentary on Trungpa Rinpoche's escape from Tibet and follow the escape route maps.
As this project is very much a work...
Fifty Years Ago
On the anniversary of Trungpa Rinpoche's arrival in India, Carolyn Gimian looks back over the past 50 years.
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s Escape Route to India
Starting in the spring of 1959, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche led a group of refugees on a nine-month journey across Tibet. He describes their route...
Born in Tibet
Chögyam Trungpa's account of his upbringing and education as an incarnate lama in Tibet and the powerful story of his escape to India. An...