Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939 – 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master.
He was holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, Supreme Abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.
He was a major, albeit controversial, figure in the dissemination of Tibetan Buddhism to the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method.
He famously coined the term ‘crazy wisdom’. Some of his teaching methods and actions were the topic of controversy during his lifetime and afterwards.
When we talk about compassion
we talk in terms of being kind.
But compassion is not so much being kind;
it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up.
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