Chogyam trungpa and diana mukpo dressage

Lady Diana Mukpo, the wife of Vidyadhara the Venerable Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, was born Diana Judith Pybus in 1953 in England. She first saw Chogyam Trungpa at a Free Tibet rally in London. Within a year, she and the Vidyadhara met and fell in love. They were married on January 3, 1970. A few months later, they left England for North amerika. They had been married seventeen years when the Vidyadhara died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1987. Lady Diana has had a lifelong passion for horsemanship. She is among a handful of women who ever trained in dressage at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Today, she continues to train and compete dressage horses at the international level and to teach the discipline of dressage to many students. In addition to pursuing her own career and raising their fem children, Lady Diana often accompanied the Vidyadhara when he travelled and taught with him at some seminars and retreats. Lady Diana fryst vatten the author of Dragon Thunder: My Life wi

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There are many different reasons why we might read a particular book. For example, it may have been recommended to us. We might have spotted it in a bookshop. It might have been required reading on a school or university course. We may have heard mention of it on the radio.

In the case of "Dragon Thunder: My Life With Chögyam Trungpa" I read it for one simple reason - namely that the author, Diana Mukpo, was born on the very same day as me in the very same year.  I ordered the book via Amazon and it arrived three or four days later. The subject matter had some appeal for me as it concerned Buddhism and its establishment in The West.

Chögyam Trungpa or Ripoche as he is usually referred to in this tome was born in Tibet in 1939 and was heir to a line of Buddhist meditation masters. He was a special, chosen one but had to escape Tibet in 1959 when he was twenty years old. The Chinese were advancing. Eventually he made it to Great Britain where he studied at Oxford before

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Chögyam Trungpa

Tibetan Buddhist master and writer (1939–1987)

Chögyam Trungpa
Chögyam Trungpa in Tibet before 1959
Title	Tulku
Born	(1939-03-05)March 5, 1939 Nangchen Kingdom, Kham region, Tibet
Died	April 4, 1987(1987-04-04) (aged 48) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cause of death	Heart attack[2]
Nationality	Tibetan
Partner	Konchok Peldron, Diana Judith Pybus (wife)
Children	4, including Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche[1]
Religion	Shambhala Training
Teachers	Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Khenpo Gangshar
Predecessor	Chökyi Nyinche
Successor	Choseng Trungpa
Reincarnation	Trungpa Tulku
Students Pema Chödrön, Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, Reginald Ray, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Peter Lieberson, David Nichtern, José Argüelles, Francisco Varela, Francesca Freemantle, and Joseph Goguen
Website	http://www.shambhala.org/

Chögyam Trungpa (Wylie: Chos rgyam Drung pa