The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One

T
HE
C
OLLECTED
W
ORKS OF
C
HÖGYAM
T
RUNGPA

VOLUME ONE

Born in Tibet • Meditation in Action • Mudra
• Selected Writings

VOLUME TWO

Glimpses of Abhidharma • Glimpses of Mahayana • Glimpses of Shunyata • The Path Is the Goal • Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness
• Selected Writings

VOLUME THREE

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism • The Heart of the Buddha • The Myth of Freedom
• Selected Writings

VOLUME FOUR

The Dawn of Tantra • Journey without Goal • The Lion’s Roar
• An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa

VOLUME FIVE

Crazy Wisdom • Illusion’s Game • The Life of Marpa the Translator
(Excerpts) •
The Rain of Wisdom
(Excerpts) •
The Sadhana of Mahamudra
(Excerpts) • Selected Writings

VOLUME SIX

Glimpses of Space • Orderly Chaos • Secret Beyond Thought • The Tibetan Book of the Dead:
Commentary •
Transcending Madness
• Selected Writings

VOLUME SEVEN

The Art of Calligraphy
(Excerpts) •
Dharma Art
•
Visual Dharma
(Excerpts) • Selected Poems • Selected Writings

VOLUME EIGHT

Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala • Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
• Selected Writings

CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA

Born in Tibet

Meditation in Action

Mudra

Selected Writings

Carolyn Rose Gimian

Diana J. Mukpo
AND
Samuel Bercholz

SHAMBHALA • BOSTON & LONDON • 2010

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© 2003 by Diana J. Mukpo

Publisher’s Foreword © 2003 by Samuel Bercholz

Introduction to Volume One © 2003 by Carolyn R. Gimian

See the Sources section at the back of this book for a continuation of the copyright page.

Frontispiece: Chögyam Trungpa in Scotland, circa 1968, provided by Tendzin Parsons. From the collection of the Shambhala Archives. Photographer unknown.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939–

[Works. 2003]

The collected works of Chögyam Trungpa / edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian; forewords by Diana J. Mukpo and Samuel Bercholz.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN 978-0-8348-2150-7

ISBN 978-1-59030-025-1 (v.1)

ISBN 978-1-59030-026-8 (v.2)

ISBN 978-1-59030-027-5 (v.3)

ISBN 978-1-59030-028-2 (v.4)

ISBN 978-1-59030-029-9 (v.5)

ISBN 978-1-59030-030-5 (v.6)

ISBN 978-1-59030-031-2 (v.7)

ISBN 978-1-59030-032-9 (v.8)

1. Spiritual life—Buddhism. 2. Buddhism—Doctrines. I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose. II. Title.

BQ4302.T7823 2003

294.3′420423—DC22 2003058963

Supplications for the Vidyadhara the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

You who have realized the dharmata of what is,

With oceans of skillful deeds of a buddha’s son,

You possess the buddha activity which tames untamable beings:

May your body, speech, and mind be established in the vajra nature.

Through the strength of the Buddha’s wisdom and compassion and that of his sons far and wide,

By the power of the oceans of lokapalas’ and dharmapalas’ activity,

I ask for the good of the teachings and of beings:

May the body, speech, and mind of the glorious guru remain in the vajra nature indestructibly.

With the dawn of the blessings of the gurus of the three lineages

You bring the sun of dharma through the whole expanse of the world;

The sight of you ripens and frees, and whatever encounters you is liberated:

May the lotus garden of your good virtues beautify the world.

The preceding supplication was made at Karmê Chöling with one-pointed mind, with veneration and joy, by an old Nyingma tantrika, Gyurme Thekchok Tenpe Gyaltsen [Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche], who is fortunate to rest under the white umbrella of the buddha activity of the second Buddha, Padmakara.
SHUBHAM MANGALAM SHRI VIJAYANTU
.

By the power and blessings of the mandala of the universal three roots,

May Chökyi Gyatso, the vidyadhara, the tamer of beings,

Live and prosper in the vajra nature indestructibly.

May your magnificent buddha activity pervade all directions.

Thus, Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje [His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche] wrote this in supplication for the longevity of the supreme tulku Trungpa Rinpoche.
SIDDHIR ASTU
.

Translated by the
N
ĀLANDĀ
T
RANSLATION
C
OMMITTEE

Dedication

Foreword by Diana J. Mukpo

Publisher’s Foreword by Samuel Bercholz

Editor’s Note

Introduction to Volume One

B
ORN IN
T
IBET

Foreword to the 1995 Edition

Foreword to the 1977 Edition

Acknowledgments

How to Pronounce Tibetan Names and Words

1. Found and Enthroned

2. The Founding of Surmang

3. Dütsi Tel and Namgyal Tse

4. My Childhood at Dütsi Tel

5. In the Steps of the Tenth Trungpa

6. I Go to My Guru

7. Death, Duties, and a Vision

8. A Many-Sided Training

9. The Dalai Lama’s Visit

10. Khampas in Revolt

11. Lonely Vocation

12. Into Hiding

13. Must We Escape?

14. It Must Be India

15. Refugees on the Move

16. Traveling the Hard Way

17. Days of Crisis

18. Touch and Go!

19. Across the Himalaya

Song of the Wanderer in Powo Valley

Epilogue to the 1977 Edition: Planting the Dharma in the West

Epilogue to the 1971 Edition

Appendix 1: The Administration of the Kagyü Monasteries of East Tibet

Appendix 2: The Doctrine of Tulkus

M
EDITATION IN
A
CTION

The Life and Example of Buddha

The Manure of Experience and the Field of Bodhi

Transmission

Generosity

Patience

Meditation

Wisdom

M
UDRA

Acknowledgments

Homage to the Guru of Inner Awareness

Introduction

Maha Ati

Songs

Poems

The Way of the Buddha

Ox Herding

S
ELECTED
W
RITINGS

Om Mani Padme Hum Hrih

Taking Refuge

Early Tibetan Buddhism

The Age of Milarepa

The Mahasattva Avalokiteshvara

The Way of the Bodhisattva

The Way of Maha Ati

The Meditation of Guru Rinpoche

The New Age

Glossary

Sources

Acknowledgments

A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa

Books by Chögyam Trungpa

Resources

Index

by
D
IANA
J. M
UKPO

M
Y LATE HUSBAND
, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was one of the main figures in the transmission of Buddhism to the West, especially to North America. As we know, Buddhism began in India, and from there it spread through many different nations and adapted itself to many cultures. The transplantation of the Buddhist teachings across many cultures and times is proof that, as long as human beings exist, fundamentally the nature of people’s minds does not change. The fundamental issues that we have to deal with as human beings remain the same, as long as people live on this earth. Therefore, the teachings that Trungpa Rinpoche gave will always be applicable, even many years after his death. Therefore, it is of great importance to gather together and publish his teachings. Through
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa
, people will continue to have access to his mind.