The Digital Library makes audio and video recordings of Chogyam Trungpa’s teachings available for all to hear and watch. Transcripts and captioning aligned with the recordings are also provided. You can browse, search, and access material in many ways. The Library is still in development.
A team of trained transcribers is completing the transcription of close to 1,000 talks never transcribed before. The team is also reviewing, digitizing and correcting older transcripts, and team members also contribute to talk and seminar descriptions for the CTR Digital Library.
The ODT began with a series of yearly workshops at Naropa to train transcribers and editors. The ODT Editors’ Group completed their first book, Cynicism and Magic: Intelligence and Intuition on the Buddhist Path, which was published in 2021.
Currently in the planning stages, the Museum and Archive will house physical documents, visual art, and many other items, both secular and sacred.
The logo of the Chogyam Trungpa Institute incorporates elements designed by Chogyam Trungpa himself. The image of the radiating sun with the EVAM symbol in its heart center symbolizes wakefulness and the unity of feminine and masculine energies.
Mandala is a way of looking at situations in terms of relativity: if that exists, this exists; if this exists, that exists. Things exist interdependently, and that interdependent existence of things happens in the fashion of orderly chaos. We have …
Dancing to the music of life is living with the four seasons, to use the metaphor of how a plant grows throughout the year. This is the idea of lalita, a Sanskrit term that means “dance.” We might also translate …
When you are in direct contact with life, rather than strategizing a result, the situation automatically provides you with your next move. Life becomes like music. You dance in accordance with your life. You don’t have to struggle to remold …
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