Author: Chogyam Trungpa
Publisher: Shambhala
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 280
ISBN/UPC (if available): 1569571058
Description
An account offering a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a Tibetan lama.
Chogyam Trungpa - Meditation master, scholar, and artist - was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major 'tulku', or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher. As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a period of intensive training in mediation, philosophy, and fine arts, receiving full ordination as a monk in 1958 at the age of eighteen. The following year, the Chinese Communists invaded Tibet, and young Trungpa spent many harrowing months trekking over the Himalayas, narrowly escaping capture.
Trungpa's account of his experiences as a young monk, his duties as the abbot and spiritual head of a great monastery, and his moving relationships s with his teachers offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of a Tibetan lama. The memoir concludes with his daring escape from Tibet to India., In an epilogue, he describes his emigration to the West.
Contents
Foreword to the 1995 Edition
Foreword to the 1977 Edition
Acknowledgements
How to Pronounce Tibetan Names and Words
CHAPTER ONE
Found and Enthroned
CHAPTER TWO
The Founding of Surmang
CHAPTER THREE
Dudtsi-til and Namgyal-tse
CHAPTER FOUR
My Childhood at Dudtsi-til
CHAPTER FIVE
In the Steps of the Tenth Trungpa
CHAPTER SIX
I Go to My Guru
CHAPTER SEVEN
Death, Duties and a Vision
CHAPTER EIGHT
A Many-sided Training
CHAPTER NINE
The Dalai Lama's Visit
CHAPTER TEN
Khampas in Revolt
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Lonely Vocation
CHAPTER TWELVE
Into Hiding
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Must We Escape ?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
It Must Be India
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Refugees on the Move
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Traveling the Hard Way
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Days of Crisis
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Touch and Go!
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Across the Himalayas
Song of the Wanderer in Powo Valley
Epilogue
Appendix I The Administration of the Ka-Gyu Monasteries of East Tibet Monastic Finances
Appendix II
glossary
Index