Chögyam Trungpa

Chögyam Trungpa was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism the 11th of the Trungpa tülkus a tertön supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries scholar teacher poet artist and originator of a radical representation of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and the myth of Shambhala as an enlightened society that was later called Shambhala Buddhism He was a major figure in the dissemination of Buddhism in the West founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method