Sublime

The retreat was to be under the direction of the Very Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, a close dharma brother of Trungpa Rinpoche and one of the foremost teachers in the Kagyü lineage.

—Lama Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist and Making Your Mind an Ocean

Seng-tsan

Standing in the background is the great fourteenth-century Nyingma scholar and yogin Longchenpa, who, for the first time, brought together the various doctrines and practices of the Ancient School into one grand and comprehensive synthesis.

Dzongsar Khytense Rinpoche

like the great nineteenth-century Ri-me master Paltrül Rinpoche, sleeping in ditches or hollows at night.

confused and unable to express their wisdom. If you look to the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, you will find a long lineage of meditation masters. These individuals were like you and me: at one point in their life they were mired in confusion, and at times they caused harm to others. Somewhere along the way, though, they encountered these Vaj

Are there any serene, gentle monastics from Chögyam Trungpa’s generation who have accomplished this much in the West? I’m still looking.

The way that Trungpa Rinpoche trained his students was a combination of the Kagyü and the Nyingma lineages of teachings of Tibetan Buddhism.