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Ann Spruyt's photo collection

Experiences with
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
by Bernard Weitzman

On Dispatches:
Michael Chender

Video: Suzuki Roshi on the Sandokai

Jack Elias on
Roshi and Rinpoche

Introducing
Dharma Classes:
Talks by Trungpa Rinpoche's students.
This episode:
Ken Friedman talks to Halifax teens

Commemorating Suzuki Roshi's arrival in America: Essay by Chogyam Trungpa; Interview with Alice and Richard Haspray

Protecting the earth discussion page

On Dispatches:
Richard John

Supplication to the Mother-Lineage Guru

On Dispatches:
John Rockwell

Still Crazy After All These Years
an article by Anna Taylor

On Dispatches:
Susan Chapman

Fifty years ago, CTR set out on his journey from Tibet. Coming soon: an online video entitled Touch and Go by Grant MacLean. View the trailer

Recalling Prajna

Tribute to Ann Spruyt

Shambhala Anthem and Improvisations
by Lars Ole Bonnevie

Jim Lowrey
Sings "My guru"

Trailer for TULKU
a new film by Gesar Mukpo

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche addresses the sangha
4 April from the NY Shambhala Center

Sangha offerings to Chögyam Trungpa

Journey to Taksang
a slide show from Dan Russell

Reflections on the life and teachings of Trungpa Rinpoche
a talk by Samuel Bercholz

Jakusho Kwong-roshi describes being with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Video by Bill Scheffel

His Holiness Penor Rinpoche passes into Parinirvana

The Compassionate World of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche receives the Rinchen Terdzo in Orissa, India
by Walker Blaine

Historic translator gathering vows to translate all Buddha's words within 25 years

David Rome reads selected devotional poems of Chogyam Trungpa

The Rinchen Terdzöd Transmission at Mindrolling Monastery

The Perfect Love Poem
By Chögyam Trungpa

Western thangka painting, an interview with Jack Niland

Nālandā Translation Committee update

The Big No

The Rinchen Terdzo

Chronicles Highlights 2008

Tribute to Paul Halpern

DJKR on Transcending Madness:
audio clip from talk 1, photos by Marvin Moore, and a blog by Bakes Mitchell

Transcending Madness discussion weblog

Buddhadharma 101 discussion weblog

Khyentse Rinpoche on Let Loose

Transcending Madness book summary from Carolyn Gimian

Chögyam Trungpa on the Six States of Bardo
(audio recordings)

Tribute to Susan Edwards

The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche on Let Loose

Mitchell Levy on Dispatches

Tyler Dewar on Let Loose
(Photo by Ponlop Rinpoche)

Gesar Mukpo on Dispatches
(Photo by Marvin Moore)

Tribute to Denise Thornton

Peter Volz on Let Loose.

Sadhana of Mahamudra 40th anniversary page
(Photograph by Dan Russell)

Sadhana of Mahamudra discussion page
(Photograph by Dan Russell)

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The Druk Sakyong Wangmo, Lady Diana Mukpo

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Journey to Taksang

A slide show by Dan Russell,
with commentary and readings by Carolyn Rose Gimian

Click on the photo to view the Slide show

In 1968, Trungpa Rinpoche left the United Kingdom for the first time since he arrived there in 1963. He journeyed from Scotland to Bhutan with two Western students: Richard Arthure and Dan Russell. Until recently, few people knew that Dan Russell took a number of extraordinary photographs during their travels. This slide show presents a selection of those photos, most of which have not been previously published. They include images from Samye Ling, His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, and Trungpa Rinpoche's journey on horseback to the retreat at Taksang where he would receive the Sadhana of Mahamudra.

These images are presented here with the consent of Dan Russell, and with the permission of the Shambhala Archives. Thank you to Dan and to the Archives for making these images available. Thank you to Silvia Hast, who traveled from Boulder, Colorado to England to scan these images. Thank you also to Marvin Ross for his digital restoration work on these images.

The soundtrack includes comments by Carolyn Gimian, an excerpt from the Sadhana of Mahamudra Sourcebook, and an excerpt from the introduction to Volume Five of The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa. © Diana Judith Mukpo, used by permission of Diana Judith Mukpo, and by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc.