Year End Letter
November 27, 2008
Dear Friends of the Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project,
We are expecting more than 500 students to gather together in Halifax, Nova Scotia this weekend for Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's program presenting teachings related to TRANSCENDING MADNESS by Chogyam Trungpa. It seems to be a good time to review what the Legacy Project has been doing and planning. The future direction of the Legacy Project depends on the wishes of everyone who participates. The seminar this weekend is, among other things, a reflection of these intentions and desires. Our current projects include:
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EDITORIAL PROJECTS:
* We are helping to raise funds for the Root Text Project (based on the Seminary Transcripts) and other forthcoming books by Chogyam Trungpa. We hope to support many future projects.
* In the future, we would like to start a fund for training young editors, so that they are well schooled in the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa and also prepared as editors of his dharma teachings, through apprenticeships and other means. This model could also be applied to other apprenticeships.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND CURRICULUM:
* The program this weekend on Transcending Madness is in part the result of the efforts of the Legacy Project to invite lineage teachers to present the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa in our community and within their own. We hope there will be many more such programs throughout North America.
* Currently the Legacy Project is working with Nalandabodhi, at the request of the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, to develop a course on the Essential Chogyam Trungpa for their centres.
* In 2007, the Nalanda Translation Committee invited the Legacy Project to be a co-sponsor of Karma Senge Rinpoche's presentation of the terma teachings of the Vidyadhara. We helped to select material for a booklet published in connection with the Avalokiteshvara Abhisheka presented in three locations in Canada and also co-sponsored a follow-up course in Halifax on the dzogchen teachings of the Vidyadhara in relationship to the Avalokiteshvara practice. We look forward to being involved in future visits of Karma Senge Rinpoche throughout North America.
* The Legacy Project has asked Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche if we may help in the future presentation of the Sadhana of Mahamudra and related teachings to other Buddhist sanghas, something he has expressed an interest in undertaking.
* The Monday Night Class in Halifax presents teachings of Chogyam Trungpa, via audio/video presentations, discussion groups, workshops and other formats. The class also serves as a 'laboratory' for the development of curricula and syllabi. The Legacy Project is working with the Shambhala Archives and Kalapa Recordings on curriculum development and the digital remastering of the material used in the Monday Night Class. A number of digitally remastered DVD sets have come out of this collaboration.
VIRTUAL ARCHIVES AND DIGITAL REMASTERING
The Legacy Project initiated discussions among the Shambhala Archives, the Chronicles of CTR and other parties interested in the development of an online archive of the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. We hope to be an important agent for the implementation of this project. Individual sangha members and centres throughout North America and Europe have expressed enthusiasm for seeing this project go forward.
SUPPORT FOR TARGETED PROJECTS WITHING THE SHAMBHALA ARCHIVES
* An important feature of the Legacy Project is to target projects within the Archives, such as the virtual archives, and to help fund and provide volunteers and staff for various initiatives. Currently, we are working on several projects and helping to fund them. Funds donated to the Legacy Project are providing support for work on the collection of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa's personal and spiritual belongings from the Labrang, in preparation for its appraisal and donation to Shambhala.
* At the moment, we are working with the Archives and generous volunteers, photographers Michael Woods and Andy Karr, on the digital remastering and preservation of more than 1,000 of the dharma art photographs of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
OUR LONG-TERM ASPIRATIONS
* These include the establishment of a library and museum to showcase and preserve the Vidyadhara's work. At the moment, we need to establish a good foundation from which we can build. Please join us. We need your ideas, your donations, and your passion to help support the legacy of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, which belongs to all of us and to many more sentient beings.
The Advisory Board of the Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project
Helen Bonzi, Walter Fordham, Carolyn Gimian, Wendy Karr, Judith Lief,
Thomas Hast, Larry Mermelstein, Miriam Tarcov, Sara Bercholz, David Rome
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A Recent Message from Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, November 2008, (via David Brown): Rinpoche continues to support the concept and purposes of the Legacy Project and the commitment it represents to preserving and making available the teachings of the Vidyadhara. He appreciates the role of the Legacy Project in co-sponsoring last year's visit by Karma Senge Rinpoche, the audio-video classes being offered in Halifax, and the generous support the project has given to other activities.
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Donations to the Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project can be made out to the CT Legacy Project and sent to:
CT Legacy Project
PO Box 33035
Halifax, NS
Canada B3L 4T6
In the USA:
CT Legacy Project
c/o Ashoka Credit Union
525 Canyon Boulevard
Boulder, Colorado
80302 USA
Dear Friends of the Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project,
We are expecting more than 500 students to gather together in Halifax, Nova Scotia this weekend for Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's program presenting teachings related to TRANSCENDING MADNESS by Chogyam Trungpa. It seems to be a good time to review what the Legacy Project has been doing and planning. The future direction of the Legacy Project depends on the wishes of everyone who participates. The seminar this weekend is, among other things, a reflection of these intentions and desires. Our current projects include:
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR EDITORIAL PROJECTS:
* We are helping to raise funds for the Root Text Project (based on the Seminary Transcripts) and other forthcoming books by Chogyam Trungpa. We hope to support many future projects.
* In the future, we would like to start a fund for training young editors, so that they are well schooled in the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa and also prepared as editors of his dharma teachings, through apprenticeships and other means. This model could also be applied to other apprenticeships.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND CURRICULUM:
* The program this weekend on Transcending Madness is in part the result of the efforts of the Legacy Project to invite lineage teachers to present the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa in our community and within their own. We hope there will be many more such programs throughout North America.
* Currently the Legacy Project is working with Nalandabodhi, at the request of the Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, to develop a course on the Essential Chogyam Trungpa for their centres.
* In 2007, the Nalanda Translation Committee invited the Legacy Project to be a co-sponsor of Karma Senge Rinpoche's presentation of the terma teachings of the Vidyadhara. We helped to select material for a booklet published in connection with the Avalokiteshvara Abhisheka presented in three locations in Canada and also co-sponsored a follow-up course in Halifax on the dzogchen teachings of the Vidyadhara in relationship to the Avalokiteshvara practice. We look forward to being involved in future visits of Karma Senge Rinpoche throughout North America.
* The Legacy Project has asked Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche if we may help in the future presentation of the Sadhana of Mahamudra and related teachings to other Buddhist sanghas, something he has expressed an interest in undertaking.
* The Monday Night Class in Halifax presents teachings of Chogyam Trungpa, via audio/video presentations, discussion groups, workshops and other formats. The class also serves as a 'laboratory' for the development of curricula and syllabi. The Legacy Project is working with the Shambhala Archives and Kalapa Recordings on curriculum development and the digital remastering of the material used in the Monday Night Class. A number of digitally remastered DVD sets have come out of this collaboration.
VIRTUAL ARCHIVES AND DIGITAL REMASTERING
The Legacy Project initiated discussions among the Shambhala Archives, the Chronicles of CTR and other parties interested in the development of an online archive of the teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. We hope to be an important agent for the implementation of this project. Individual sangha members and centres throughout North America and Europe have expressed enthusiasm for seeing this project go forward.
SUPPORT FOR TARGETED PROJECTS WITHING THE SHAMBHALA ARCHIVES
* An important feature of the Legacy Project is to target projects within the Archives, such as the virtual archives, and to help fund and provide volunteers and staff for various initiatives. Currently, we are working on several projects and helping to fund them. Funds donated to the Legacy Project are providing support for work on the collection of the Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa's personal and spiritual belongings from the Labrang, in preparation for its appraisal and donation to Shambhala.
* At the moment, we are working with the Archives and generous volunteers, photographers Michael Woods and Andy Karr, on the digital remastering and preservation of more than 1,000 of the dharma art photographs of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
OUR LONG-TERM ASPIRATIONS
* These include the establishment of a library and museum to showcase and preserve the Vidyadhara's work. At the moment, we need to establish a good foundation from which we can build. Please join us. We need your ideas, your donations, and your passion to help support the legacy of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, which belongs to all of us and to many more sentient beings.
The Advisory Board of the Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project
Helen Bonzi, Walter Fordham, Carolyn Gimian, Wendy Karr, Judith Lief,
Thomas Hast, Larry Mermelstein, Miriam Tarcov, Sara Bercholz, David Rome
* * * * * * * * * * * *
A Recent Message from Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, November 2008, (via David Brown): Rinpoche continues to support the concept and purposes of the Legacy Project and the commitment it represents to preserving and making available the teachings of the Vidyadhara. He appreciates the role of the Legacy Project in co-sponsoring last year's visit by Karma Senge Rinpoche, the audio-video classes being offered in Halifax, and the generous support the project has given to other activities.
****************************
Donations to the Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project can be made out to the CT Legacy Project and sent to:
CT Legacy Project
PO Box 33035
Halifax, NS
Canada B3L 4T6
In the USA:
CT Legacy Project
c/o Ashoka Credit Union
525 Canyon Boulevard
Boulder, Colorado
80302 USA
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