The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume 10: Work, Sex, Money - Mindfulness in Action - Devotion and Crazy Wisdom - Selected Writings

by Chögyam Trungpa, Carolyn Rose Gimian (Editor)

Volume ten includes Chogyam Trungpa's three most recent books and many selected writings. The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa brings together the writings of one of the first and most influential Tibetan teachers to present Buddhism in the West. From his arrival in England in 1963 and America in 1970 until his death in Canada, Chogyam Trungpa was the author of thirteen books. Since his death, works continue to be compiled and published from the voluminous transcripts left behind from his teachings. The first eight volumes of the Collected Works, which appeared in 2004, featured his major books, along with more than seventy articles from many sources, poetry, interviews, and introductions to books by other authors. Now, two more volumes in the series are being released that include books compiled since the first volumes were published--along with articles and interviews never-before-published that were not included in the first eight volumes.
Volume ten includes:

- Work, Sex, Money

- Mindfulness in Action

- Devotion and Crazy Wisdom

- Selected Writings

800 pages, Hardcover

Published October 5, 2017

About the author

Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Tibetan: ཆོས་ རྒྱམ་ དྲུང་པ་ Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa; also known as Dorje Dradul of Mukpo, Surmang Trungpa, after his monastery, or Chökyi Gyatso, of which Chögyam is an abbreviation) was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher, poet, and artist. He was the 11th descendent in the line of Trungpa tulkus of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was also trained in the Nyingma tradition, the oldest of the four schools, and was an adherent of the rimay or "non-sectarian" movement within Tibetan Buddhism, which aspired to bring together and make available all the valuable teachings of the different schools, free of sectarian rivalry.

Trungpa was a significant figure in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method, a presentation of the Buddhadharma largely devoid of ethnic trappings. In 1963, he moved to England to study comparative religion, philosophy, and fine arts at Oxford University. During this time, he also studied Japanese flower arranging and received an instructors degree from the Sogetsu school of ikebana. In 1967, he moved to Scotland, where he founded the Samye Ling meditation centre.

Shortly thereafter, a variety of experiences—including a car accident that left him partially paralyzed on the left side of his body—led him to give up his monastic vows and work as a lay teacher. In 1969, he published Meditation in Action , the first of fourteen books on the spiritual path published during his lifetime. The following year he married Diana Pybus and moved to the United States, where he established his first North American meditation centre, Tail of the Tiger (now known as Karmê-Chöling) in Barnet, Vermont.

In 1986, he moved to Nova Scotia, Canada, where hundreds of his students had settled. That Autumn, after years of heavy alcohol use, he had a cardiac arrest, and he died of heart failure the following Spring. His legacy is carried on by his son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, under the banner of Shambhala International and the Nalanda Translation Committee.

Reviews

[Annette · Rating 5 out of 5]

To me, this book is meant to be read in pieces…when compelled to read it…and it always, always related to what was happening in my life. I will read this book over an over again.