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Trungpa Rinpoche's Training the Mind Seminar: Talk One


Interview with
Khandro Rinpoche:
Part Two


Fifty years ago,
January 24, 1960:
Chogyam Trungpa arrives in India


Interview with
Khandro Rinpoche:
Part One


Chogyam Trungpa's Journal of the final weeks of the escape

updated most days from December 15 and January 24


Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche's upcoming visit to Europe and North America


Chronicles Highlights 2009


We are the warriors of Shambhala

A new song by Sakyong Mipham and Khandro Tseyang


Chogyam Trungpa on Meditation:
Talk Three (video)


Early December 1959, preparing to cross the Brahmaputra


Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 10: Sacred World


Scattered pearls

A brief encounter by Sarah Trefethen Whitehorn


Chogyam Trungpa on Meditation:
Talk Two (video)


Research Expedition to Prince Edward Island


Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 9: Work, Sex, and Money


You knocked over the musician!

A Brief Encounter by Mark Hazell


Meditation instruction from Chogyam Trungpa (video)

Meditation: The way of the Buddha, Talk One


Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche on Let Loose


Essential Chögyam Trungpa Class 8: Emptiness, Wisdom, and Seeing Things as They Are


Jamgon Kongtrul Seminar talk 6

by Chogyam Trungpa (audio)


Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Quick Charcoal

by William Gilkerson


Judith Lief
on Dispatches


Meditation in the
fourth moment

a talk by Chogyam Trungpa (audio)


Mark Szpakowski
on Dispatches


Meditation

from the Jan 2010 issue of the Sun


Chogyam Trungpa audio recording: Talk Four of the Jamgon Kongtrul Seminar is now online


Update: November 1959


Larry Mermelstein
on Dispatches: Part Two


Class 5 of the Essential Chogyam Trungpa:
The Battle of Ego, with Sherab Chodzin Kohn


Tashi—a member of Trungpa Rinpoche’s escape party—tells his story


Larry Mermelstein
on Dispatches: Part One


Mindfulness and Awareness, a talk by Clarke Warren


Halloween edition:
Chogyam Trungpa on spookiness


Thrangu Rinpoche
on Let Loose


Karmapa speaks of kindness on International Day of Climate Action


Lineage & Non-Theistic Devotion, a talk by Peter Volz


Arthur Borden's 49th day


The Sun of Wisdom
A guru-sadhana by Trungpa Rinpoche


Touch and Go

A documentary by Grant MacLean


Finding the route

Uncovering CTR's path
to India via Flight Simulator, Google Earth, and more


Dharma Classes

Karma, a talk to sangha teens by Ken Friedman


Gesar Mukpo
talks about Tulku


Rolpa Dorje and wife perish in torrential rainstorm


Jeanine Greenleaf
on Dispatches

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Told by Karma Senge Rinpoche


Photo. by
Marvin Moore

Stories heard at his grandmother's (CTR's mother) feet, or from his father (CTR's attendant), or from any one of the many Trungpa Rinpoche disciples he met on his travels through Kham — these are teaching stories about Trungpa Rinpoche's outer, inner, and secret activities before his escape from Tibet.

Over the past four years, Karseng Rinpoche has begun to transmit a treasury of previously unknown teachings by Trungpa Rinpoche, and along with the teachings come stories — many stories. The Chronicles has had the good fortune to record some of these accounts, and — with Karseng Rinpoche's permission and blessings — we will be presenting them on this page over the coming years.


Ngodup Dorji
Photo by M. Moore

These stories are told in Tibetan and interpreted on the spot. The interpreter for the first series of stories is Ngodup Dorji — a Bhutanese lama who has spent time in Halifax working with the Nalanda Translation Committee. We would like to express our gratitude to Ngodup Dorji for the excellent work he has done interpreting Karseng Rinpoche's words.

Karseng Rinpoche's work in the West would not be possible without the hard work and support of the Nalanda Translation Committee. Thank you NTC!


This first story from Karseng Rinpoche is about a dream encounter that Trungpa Rinpoche had with Mao Zedong when he was about eight years old.

Pilgrimage to Beijing

[13 minutes]

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The next story from Kham:
The 10th Trungpa's conversation with three women on the road.







































































































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