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The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Five
T
HE
C
OLLECTED
W
ORKS OF
C
HÖGYAM
T
RUNGPA
VOLUME ONE
Born in Tibet • Meditation in Action • Mudra
• Selected Writings
VOLUME TWO
Glimpses of Abhidharma • Glimpses of Mahayana • Glimpses of Shunyata • The Path Is the Goal • Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness
• Selected Writings
VOLUME THREE
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism • The Heart of the Buddha • The Myth of Freedom
• Selected Writings
VOLUME FOUR
The Dawn of Tantra • Journey without Goal • The Lion’s Roar
• An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa
VOLUME FIVE
Crazy Wisdom • Illusion’s Game • The Life of Marpa the Translator
(Excerpts) •
The Rain of Wisdom
(Excerpts) •
The Sadhana of Mahamudra
(Excerpts) • Selected Writings
VOLUME SIX
Glimpses of Space • Orderly Chaos • Secret Beyond Thought • The Tibetan Book of the Dead:
Commentary •
Transcending Madness
• Selected Writings
VOLUME SEVEN
The Art of Calligraphy
(Excerpts) •
Dharma Art
•
Visual Dharma
(Excerpts) • Selected Poems • Selected Writings
VOLUME EIGHT
Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala • Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
• Selected Writings
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA
VOLUME FIVE
Crazy Wisdom
Illusion’s Game: The Life and Teachings of Naropa
The Life of Marpa the Translator
(Excerpts)
The Rain of Wisdom
(Excerpts)
The Sadhana of Mahamudra
(Excerpts)
Selected Writings
EDITED BY
Carolyn Rose Gimian
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Introduction to Volume Five © 2004 by Carolyn R. Gimian
Frontispiece: Chögyam Trungpa performing the abhishekha of Vajrayogini, an advanced tantric empowerment. Boulder, Colorado, ca. 1979. Photograph by Paul Kloppenburg. Used by permission.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Trunpga, Chögyam, 1939–
[Works. 2003]
The collected works of Chögyam Trungpa / edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian; forewords by Diana J. Mukpo and Samuel Bercholz.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN 978-0-8348-2154-5
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1. Spiritual life—Buddhism. 2. Buddhism—Doctrines. I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose. II. Title.
BQ4302.T7823 2003
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CONTENTS
Editor’s Foreword
Crazy Wisdom Seminar I: Jackson Hole, 1972
1. Padmasambhava and Spiritual Materialism
4. Eternity and the Charnel Ground
Crazy Wisdom Seminar II: Karmê Chöling, 1972
1. Padmasambhava and the Energy of Tantra
2. Hopelessness and the Trikaya
4. Death and the Sense of Experience
6. Intellect and Working with Negativity
7. Dorje Trolö and the Three Styles of Transmission
Notes
I
LLUSION’S
G
AME
: T
HE
L
IFE AND
T
EACHING OF
N
AROPA
Editor’s Foreword
PART ONE
Life of Naropa Seminar I
2. Genuine Madness and Pop Art
3. An Operation without Anesthetics
PART TWO
Life of Naropa Seminar II
From
T
HE
L
IFE OF
M
ARPA THE
T
RANSLATOR
Preface
Foreword
The Sadhana of Mahamudra: Selections from a Tantric Liturgy
Explanation of the Vajra Guru Mantra
Foreword to
The Torch of Certainty
Practice of the Four Foundations: An Interview
Teachings on the Tulku Principle
A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME FIVE
V
OLUME
F
IVE BRINGS US
to a series of writings that concern themselves with the themes of lineage and devotion in the context of vajrayana Buddhism and Chögyam Trungpa’s transmission of dharma to America. The first two offerings in this volume,
Crazy Wisdom
and
Illusion’s Game: The Life and Teaching of Naropa,
are commentaries by Chögyam Trungpa on the significance of the lives of two great lineage holders: Padmasambhava, or Guru Rinpoche, who introduced Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century; and Naropa, the Indian guru who gave the root teachings of the Kagyü lineage to his Tibetan disciple Marpa in the eleventh century. Marpa is known as the father of the Kagyü lineage in Tibet, and it is his life and teachings that are the subject of the next two selections in Volume Five. In this case,
The Collected Works
includes Chögyam Trungpa’s preface and his translator’s colophon to
The Life of Marpa the Translator,
which was translated by Trungpa Rinpoche and the Nālandā Translation Committee (NTC) and first published in 1982. Since translations in general are beyond the scope of
The Collected Works,
only the preface and the colophon are included. Likewise,
The Collected Works
includes Chögyam Trungpa’s foreword and colophon to
The Rain of Wisdom,
another translation undertaken by the NTC under Rinpoche’s direction. Rinpoche’s own songs, or religious poetry, that are part of the English edition of
The Rain of Wisdom
are also presented.
The next selection is an excerpt from
The Sadhana of Mahamudra,
the tantric text that Chögyam Trungpa received as terma in Bhutan in 1968. This is followed by “Joining Energy and Space,” an article based on some of the teachings that he subsequently gave to his students about the significance of the sadhana.
The Sadhana of Mahamudra
brings together the ultimate teachings from two great Tibetan spiritual lineages: the dzogchen, or maha ati, teachings of the Nyingma and the mahamudra teachings of the Kagyü.