Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoché

Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoché (1939 - 1987) was the 11th reincarnation of the line of the Tulkou S Trungpa, Masters important of the line Kagyu, one of the four schools of the Bouddhisme Tibetan, re-elected for the particular importance which it attaches to the practice meditation. Chögyam Trungpa was also formed in the oldest tradition Nyingma, of the schools, and adhered to the movement Rimé (not-sectarian).

Biography

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoché was one of the most dynamic teachers of Buddhism of the 20th century. It made work of pioneer while bringing the Buddhist lesson of the Tibet to Occident. It founded more than one hundred of centers of meditation throughout the world of which the first Buddhist university of inspiration in North America: the Naropa University. He is the author of more than 20 books on the meditation, Buddhism, poetry, arts and the way Shambhala of the art of the warrior.

Chögyam Trungpa was born in the province from Kham, with the Eastern Tibet, in 1940. It had only 13 month when it was recognized as réincarné Master. After being established higher supreme of the monastery of Surmang and governor of the district of Surmang, it began one period from 18 years formation, based on the practice of the meditation and the theoretical study of Buddhist philosophy. At 8 years, Chögyam Trungpa is ordered monk beginner and approaches the study and the intensive practice of the monastic disciplines, just as those of arts, of which penmanship, the painting of thangka and monastic dance. In 1958, it receives the titles of kyorpön (Doctor of Divinity) of khenpo (main of the studies). The same year, it is ordered monk.

Because of Chinese military invasion of the Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa had to flee its country in 1959, at the 20 years age. Escaping from little to the Chinese invaders, it left with a group of 300 people, of which Akong Rinpoché, for a dangerous voyage through the Himalayas until in India. Only 13 people will reach healthy and save the India. Of 1959 with 1963, Chögyam Trungpa was named by the 14th Dalaï Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, spiritual adviser of the Young Lamas Home School , with Dalhousie in India. In 1963, Chögyam Trungpa left for England in order to study the compared religions, philosophy and the fine arts at the University of Oxford, thanks to a Spaulding purse. At the same time, he studied also Japanese floral arrangement (Ikebana) and accepted the qualification of teacher of the Sogetsu school.

In 1967, it went in Scotland where it founded, with Akong Rinpoché, the center of meditation Samye Ling, 1st center of practice of the Bouddhisme Tibetan in Occident. A little later various events - including an car accident which left him a partial left hémiplégie - led Chögyam Trungpa to make the decision to give up its monastic vows and to become teaching laic. In 1969, it published Méditation and Action , 1st of a series of books on the spiritual way which were published during its life. The following year arised another turning in the life of Trungpa, when he married Diana Pybus and left to the United States, where he establishes its 1st center of meditation in North America, Tail off the Tiger ( the Tail of the Tiger ) in Barnet in the Vermont, now known under the name of Karmê Chöling.

In the Seventies, Chögyam Trungpa directed 6 Vajradhatu seminars three months, during which it presented a vast corpus of Buddhist lesson in an environment of intensive meditation. The seminars contributed to the important function to train its pupils with becoming themselves teachers. Chögyam Trungpa also invited other Masters, including the 16th Karmapa, chief of the line Kagyupa, to come to teach in Occident.

It is as for this period as Chögyam Trungpa founded Vajradhatu, an organization which chapeaute the many centers which were established throughout the world under its direction and whose central seat is established with Boulder in Colorado. In 1976, it appointed Thomas Rich his Vajra Regent, traditional function which confers the responsibility to continue the task of lesson bequeathed by a Master. The Regent Vajra Ösel Tendzin was the 1st Westerner recognized like holder of the line Shambhala of the tradition Kagyupa.

Towards end of the year 70, Chögyam Trungpa carried out the desire which it had for a long time to offer a contemplative practice to the people who were not necessarily interested in the study of Buddhism. It developed a program called Apprentissage Shambhala, based on the legendary waked up kingdom of the same name. During the Eighties, while continuing its rounds of teaching, the Vajradhatu seminars and the publication of books - to what the establishment of a Buddhist monastery is added to Cape Breton in Nova Scotia, in Canada - Trungpa directed its attention more and more towards the propagation of lesson which extended beyond the Buddhist gun. These activities did not include/understand only the Training Shambhala, which attracted thousands of pupils, but also the shooting with the Japanese arc, penmanship, floral arrangement (Ikebana), the ceremony of the, health, the dance, the theater and psychotherapy, inter alia. By sowing seeds of these many spheres of activities, Chögyam Trungpa sought to bring, according to its own terms, " art in the life quotidienne". It establishes in 1974 the Nalanda Foundation to be used as supervision with these activities.

The gasoline of the organization founded by Chögyam Trungpa was to offer programmes of teaching and instruction of meditation in more than one hundred of centers (Dharmadhatu) established in cities throughout the world and the few rural contemplative centers where were held of the programs of meditation and study intensives. In these various centers, which formed a rather vast and somewhat abstract network, one presented to the pupils the possibility of integrating the study and the practice of the meditation in their daily life. According to their interest and their affinities, the pupils engaged in one of the many contemplative activities which form today part of the organization Shambhala, since the traditional meditation until floral arrangement and with the dance.

In 1986, according to its desire to establish the center of its organization in a less aggressive environment and materialist, Chögyam Trungpa left for the Nova Scotia, where a few hundreds of its pupils had been already established. Little time afterwards, in April 1987, the life of Chögyam Trungpa came to a end. Its funerals, to which assisted more than 3000 people, proceeded over one day whole in a ceremony worked out, on the ground of the Vermont where it had taken foot for the 1st time in the USA. A few years later, the Vajra Regent died too. During the time following these deaths, the community and its leaders turned to one of the most venerated Masters of Chögyam Trungpa and the only alive one, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoché, chief of the line Nyingmapa.

XIIe reincarnation

Choseng Trungpa Rinpoché is 12th and current Trungpa Rinpoché. It was born the February 6th 1989 in the village from Pawo, with Dege, in the East of the Tibet, the Kham. He was recognized by Taï Sitou Rinpoché in 1991. He was established one year later with the Monastery of Surmang by his uncle, Damkar Rinpoché, a high LAMA Kagyupa. He studied the traditions of Surmang under the supervision of Kenla, a advanced and old monk, and received his primary education monastic education with the Shedra with the Monastery of Palpung.

The name Choseng is a contraction of Chokyi Sengay, which means “the Lion of the Dharma.

In 2001, it met for the first time Sakyong Mipham Rinpoché, the son of its preceding incarnation, Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoché.

See too

External bonds

the Biography of Chokyi Sengay, Trungpa XII, on the Web site of the Foundation of Konchok

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