Visual Dharma offers the full view on artistic expression from a master of dharma and the arts. In this four talk video set the Vidyadhara demonstrates ikebana, calligraphy and discusses poetry with Allen Ginsberg. This is a unique opportunity to hear and see the founder of Shambhala Training apply Shambhala principles to the creative arts.
Talk Titles:
1. State Of Mind;
2. Space, Sacredness & Sanity;
3. Great Eastern Sun;
4. Basic Goodness
Visual Dharma, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Vajradhatu Publications, 4 DVDs, $40.00
Trungpa was born in Eastern Tibet and recognized as an incarnation of the Trungpa line at an early date. He studied with, among others, one of the reincarnations of the Jamgyon Kongtrul who wrote the most famous commentary on the Seven Points. In 1959 he fled to India in the wake of the Communist takeover in Tibet, courageously leading many of his people to safety (this period is described in his book Born in Tibet.) He came to England in the mid-sixties to study at Oxford, learned English, started to teach, and started one of the first Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. He later dropped his monastic vows, married, and moved to America where he continued his teaching. He founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a large and highly respected Buddhist universit
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