• Life Of Marpa, The Translator

• First Thought Best Thought

• Born In Tibet

• Glimpses Of Abhidharma

• The Tibetan Book Of The Dead

• Crazy Wisdom

• Orderly Chaos

• Lions Roar

• Glimpses Of Realization

• Meditation In Action [ With Samuel Bercholz (Ed.) ]

• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism [With Samuel Bercholz (Ed.) ]

• Training The Mind : And Cultivating Loving-Kindness

• Shambhala: Sacred Path Of The Warrior

• Journey Without Goal. The Tantric Wisdom Of The Buddha

• The Myth Of Freedom. And The Way Of Meditation [With John Baker (Ed.) & Marvin Casper (Ed.) ]

• Transcending Madness

• The Path is the Goal

Tibetan Dharma master, spiritual leader, meditation teacher, propagator, writer and art lover.

Read Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche as he challenges norms and rituals and speaks lucidly in a most existential manner of creatively integrating and permeating Buddhist principles and values in everyday activities.


He was the 11th descendent in the line of Trungpa tulkus, important teachers of the Kagyü lineage. He was also trained in the Nyingma tradition, the oldest of the four schools and was an adherent of the ri-me ("non-sectarian") ecumenical movement within Tibetan Buddhism, which aspired to bring together and make available all the valuable teachings of the different schools.

Fleed Tibet in 1959, and appointed by the Dalai Lama, as the spiritual advisor for the Young Lamas Home School in Dalhousie, India. In 1963, he moved to England to study comparative religion, philosophy, and fine arts under a Spaulding Fellowship at Oxford University. In 1967, he moved to Scotland, where he founded the Samye Ling meditation centre, the first Tibetan Buddhist practice centre in the West. Gave up his monastic vows and worked as a lay teacher, married Diana Pybus and moved to the United States in 1970, where he established his first North American meditation centre, Tail of the Tiger (now known as Karmê-Chöling) in Barnet, Vermont.

Spend a decade in the 1970s during which he traveled constantly throughout North America, published many books. Established three meditation centres, a contemplative university (Naropa University), and Vajradhatu (headquartered in Boulder, Colorado), the umbrella organization for the many centres that were springing up throughout the world under his direction. He also developed Shambhala Training, based on the legendary enlightened kingdom of that name, and included activities such as Japanese archery, calligraphy, flower arranging, tea ceremony, health care, dance, theatre, and psychotherapy, among others. He founded the Nalanda Foundation in 1974 as an umbrella organization for these activities and centers across the world.

In 1976, appointed Thomas Rich to be his Vajra Regent, a traditional position giving someone the responsibility of carrying on the teaching legacy left by a teacher. Vajra Regent Ösel Tendzin was the first westerner to be acknowledged as a lineage holder in the Kagyü tradition.