Born in Tibet: The Eleventh Trungpa Tulku as Told to Esme Cramer Roberts: With a Foreword by Marco Pallis
by Trungpa, Chogyam
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About This Item
New York: Helen and Kurt Wolf/ Harcourt Brace & World, (1968). First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/fine. 264p octavo, illustrated. Author's account of his early years. A hereditary Tibetan Buddhist monk, Trungpa emigrated to America wherehe renounced his formal vows and founded the branch of Buddhism known as Shambhala. He also founded the Narop Institute in Boulder, Colorado where he instructed manu of the prominent Beat poets, including Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Anne Waldman and Diane di Prima. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket signed by Trungpa on the dedication page. He died of alcoholism at the age of 48 in 1987. Books signed by Trungpa are quite scarce . Two private library stamps to the endpapers.
Synopsis
Chögyam Trungpa (1940–1987)—meditation master, teacher, and artist—founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, the first Buddhist-inspired university in North America; the Shambhala Training program; and an international association of meditation centers known as Shambhala International. He is the author of numerous books including Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior , Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism , and The Myth of Freedom .
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- Title
- Born in Tibet: The Eleventh Trungpa Tulku as Told to Esme Cramer Roberts
- Author
- Trungpa, Chogyam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Helen and Kurt Wolf/ Harcourt Brace & World
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1968)
- Keywords
- Buddhism Shambhala
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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