The essential Chögyam Trungpa
/ edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian
- 1st ed
- Boston : Shambhala , 1999.
- xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Chogyam Trungpa was one of the most influential figures in the deveopment of Buddhism in America. the first Tibetan lama to teach in English, he coined such phrases as "cutting through spiritual materialism", "crazy wisdom", and - his pupil Allen Ginsberg's favorite - "first thought best thought". Trungpa wrote more than two dozen bhooks on buddhism and the Shambhala path of warriorship.