My name is Chuck Lief and I have the privilege as serving as the president of Naropa University in Boulder Colorado.
It's a joy for me to announce today the establishment of the Chogyam Trungpa Institute at Naropa.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the Tibetan scholar, Buddhist meditation teacher, poet, and artist,
was the founder of Naropa in 1974.
And for the forty four years since the Naropa founding
hundreds of faculty and thousands of students have come together to explore the ways in which we can join
the wisdom of the eastern contemplative traditions with the academic disciplines of the west.
The Chogyam Trungpa Institute will be a place where the impact of his teachings can be
rigorously studied, explored,
new creative forms can arise from that work. It will also serve as an archival repository for
literally thousands of pieces of written material that he created.
Artwork and all sorts of other important artifacts of the remarkable life that he had, specially in the west.
We believe that the work Trungpa Rinpoche did from the time he arrived in North America in 1970
was really instrumental in the creation of what today is called the modern mindfulness movement
and established the strong interest in Buddhist practice I think in the western world.
The establishment of the Chogyam Trungpa Institute at Naropa is only made possible because of the collaboration with many other people.
Notable Mrs. Diana Mukpo who was Trungpa Rinpoche's wife
and who has beautifully and powerfully protected his work and his teachings since his death in 1987.
Were also in close collaboration with Kalapa Media.
Kalapa Media is the publishing arm of Shambhala international.
Which is the Buddhist organization that Trungpa Rinpoche founded when he arrived North America in 1970.
Finally are delighted that a collaboration has taken place
with the Shambhala archives, under the direction of Mrs. Carolyn Gimian.
And not only have we collaborated with Carolyn but we've managed to convince her
to step in as the first executive director of the Chogyam Trungpa Institute.
Something I'm sure that will lead to great success as we establish the work here in Boulder Colorado.
I wanna thank everyone for your interest in the Chogyam Trungpa Institute,
and look forward with sharing information with you over the coming months.
I invite you to hear so coming remarks from Mrs. Diana Mukpo and Mrs. Carolyn Gimian
who will talk about the Chogyam Trungpa Institute from their points of view.
Thank you very much!
On behalf of the Mukpo family I would like to express our happiness.
That finally we have been able to create a repository of Trungpa's Rinpoches teachings at Naropa University.
When Trungpa Rinpoche decided to found Naropa
Which was initially an institute and then became the first Buddhist inspired university in the United States.
He
wanted to model it on the great Nalanda Univeristy in India .
and then he decided that would be too arrogant to actually use that name
but he wanted to found it on the same principles as Nalanda.
and therefore called in Naropa.
and
almost thirty one years now after his death
we have a repository where we can
house many of his works and also create an educational system where we can
educate more editors, because we still have a lot of unpublished material.
I think he would of been so happy that this
had happened at Naropa
because of the purity of the intention
of this educational organization that his teachings would remain in their purest form.
And also be accessible for people from generations to come.
It is extremely timely that those people who are now getting older who are his students
can still have the influence
to make sure this is done appropriately for the benefit of future generations.
People who will come after us
who never had the opportunity to know him and receive his teachings.
But can still have that benefit from the work that is being done at Naropa.
Hello I am Carolyn Gimian the newly appointed director of the Chogyam Trungpa Institue here at Naropa University.
I am delighted and honored to be able to shepherd this project for the next few years as it gets going.
For me the Chogyam Trungpa Institute is the culmination of about thirty plus years of work in archiving,
and preserving his
teachings in all their forms.
And now the institute is providing the opportunity to go from that activity to focusing more on access to the material
and to expand the audience of those who are interested in his teaching and in the man himself.
One of our first projects will be an online platform for his teachings, which were calling CHELA
The Chogyam Trungpa Electronic Library and Archive.
And that's made up of audio, video, transcriptions, so that we can have captioning of the audio and video also
photographs and many other artifacts that it will include.
So I'm really looking forward to that and that will really expand the audience.
We want to be sure that this is done in a way that
is not just data driven but also really audience based, so it speaks to people.
The Chogyam Trungpa Institute has the support of the Trungpa Rinpoches family.
It is also being supported by the Shambhala archives
and by the Allen Ginsberg Library here at Naropa. And many other organizations.
So I'm really pleased that so many people are supporting it and I think its important to be a collaborative effort.
And I'd like to invite all of you to join us and help
this institute realize it's potential.
Thank you!
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