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Taming untameable beings: early stories of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche with the Pygmies & other hippies / Jim Lowrey.

by Lowrey, Jim.

Blue Horse, c2015.

Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939-1987.

Hippies -- Colorado -- Boulder.

Buddhists -- United States -- Biography.

Buddhism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Spiritual life -- Buddhism.

Spiritual biography.

Boulder (Colo.) -- Biography.

9780994793201 (pbk.)

0994793200 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Early stories of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche with the Pygmies and other hippies

251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249)

A brief description of some of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's students, activites, and teachings from 1968-1973, by a member of the Pygmy Farm, a hippie commune in Boulder, Colorado. Padmasambhava -- the lotus born -- overcame cultural, political, and spiritual obstacles to bring the Buddhist teachings to Tibet from India in the ninth century. Likewise, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche had to conquer religious and cultural opposition to Buddhism -- the secret teachings, in particular -- to establish his community in North America in the twentieth century. Jim Lowrey is an "old dog" Trungpa student, who, with the rest of his Pygmy hippie family went to Trungpa Rinpoche's first public talk in Colorado in 1970 and connected with him immediately.

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