Remembering Robin
Robin (standing), Larry, and Jan Watson with the Vidyadhara in 1975 Photo by Robert Del Tredici On July 31, 2007, Robin Kornman, one of the [...]
Eliminating Gender-Biased Language
Over the past decade, we have dedicated a fair bit of thought and time to transforming the language of our practice texts from male-biased English to gender-inclusive [...]
Karma Senge on Kyere Monastery and Trungpa Rinpoche
In our annual newsletter, we published a story, “The Vidyadhara Meets Mahakala,” from the following article. Here, we are pleased to present the entire article, which is [...]
Collected Tibetan Works of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Something Old, Something New 2004 Sakyong Mipahm Rinpoche receives the Collected Tibetan Works of his father, the Vidyadhara, from Karma Senge Rinpoche while visiting Dorje [...]
Trungpa Rinpoche’s Early Days As a Tertön
Within the Shambhala Community, many of us are familiar with terma that the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche discovered after leaving Tibet, such as The Sadhana of Mahamudra and a [...]
Surmang Rinpoches Visit North America
Homecoming by Larry Mermelstein In the summer of 2003, for the first time, Damchö Tenphel Rinpoche, the younger brother of the Vidyadhara Trungpa Rinpoche, and Karma Senge [...]
Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance
For several years we have been translating the shamatha and vipashyana sections of Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje’s medium-length work on mahamudra, Dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance. This is [...]
Translating Shamatha Mahamudra
Mahamudra is ultimately indefinable, indescribable. Nevertheless, for generations teachers have guided students who have themselves become teachers, who have guided yet more students in the ways of [...]