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.
The point of the practice of accumulating merit is that you have to sacrifice something rather than purely yearning for pleasure. You have to start at the right end of the stick from the very beginning. In order to do …
Accumulating merit is also based on complete trust in the three types of encouragement. These are not slogans but lines of encouragement for all the slogans. They are: Grant your blessing if it is better for me to be sick. …
Accumulating merit is not accumulating anything for our own ego trip. Rather it is trying to relate with what is sacred or holy. We are making a connection with sacred areas of reality: the very idea of the teachings, or …
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