The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume 6

T
HE
C
OLLECTED
W
ORKS OF
C
HÖGYAM
T
RUNGPA

VOLUME ONE

Born in Tibet • Meditation in Action • Mudra
• Selected Writings

VOLUME TWO

Glimpses of Abhidharma • Glimpses of Mahayana • Glimpses of Shunyata • The Path Is the Goal • Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness
• Selected Writings

VOLUME THREE

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism • The Heart of the Buddha • The Myth of Freedom
• Selected Writings

VOLUME FOUR

The Dawn of Tantra • Journey without Goal • The Lion’s Roar
• An Interview with Chögyam Trungpa

VOLUME FIVE

Crazy Wisdom • Illusion’s Game • The Life of Marpa the Translator
(Excerpts) •
The Rain of Wisdom
(Excerpts) •
The Sadhana of Mahamudra
(Excerpts) • Selected Writings

VOLUME SIX

Glimpses of Space • Orderly Chaos • Secret Beyond Thought • The Tibetan Book of the Dead:
Commentary •
Transcending Madness
• Selected Writings

VOLUME SEVEN

The Art of Calligraphy
(Excerpts) •
Dharma Art
•
Visual Dharma
(Excerpts) • Selected Poems • Selected Writings

VOLUME EIGHT

Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala • Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
• Selected Writings

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF

CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA

VOLUME SIX

Glimpses of Space

Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle

Secret Beyond Thought

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Commentary

Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos

Selected Writings

EDITED BY

Carolyn Rose Gimian

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Introduction to Volume Six © 2004 by Carolyn R. Gimian

Frontispiece: Chögyam Trungpa at Karmê Chöling, ca. 1971. Photographer unknown. From the collection of the Shambhala Archives.

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Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939–

[Works. 2003]

The collected works of Chögyam Trungpa / edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian; forewords by Diana J. Mukpo and Samuel Bercholz.—1st ed.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Spiritual life Buddhism.   2. Buddhism—Doctrines.   I. Gimian, Carolyn Rose.   II. Title.

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CONTENTS

Introduction to Volume Six

T
RANSCENDING
M
ADNESS
: T
HE
E
XPERIENCE OF THE
S
IX
B
ARDOS

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Foreword

PART ONE
   
The Six States of Bardo: Allenspark, 1971

1. Bardo

2. The Six Realms of Being

3. The Bardo of Meditation

4. The Bardo of Birth

5. The Bardo of Illusory Body

6. The Bardo of Dreams

7. The Bardo of Existence

8. The Bardo of Death

9. The Lonely Journey

PART TWO
 
The Six States of Being: Karmê Chöling, 1971

1. Pain and Pleasure

2. The Realm of the Gods

3. The Jealous God Realm

4. The Human Realm

5. The Animal Realm

6. The Hungry Ghost and Hell Realms

7. The Sequence of Bardos

Appendix A   The Six States of Bardo

Appendix B   The Cycle of the Bardos

Notes

From
T
HE
T
IBETAN
B
OOK OF THE
D
EAD

Foreword

Commentary

O
RDERLY
C
HAOS
: T
HE
M
ANDALA
P
RINCIPLE

Editor’s Foreword

PART ONE
  
Mandala of Unconditioned Energy: Karmê Chöling, 1972

1. Orderly Chaos

2. The Razor’s Edge

3. The Portrait of Confused Mind

4. The Watcher’s Game

5. The Lubrication of Samsara

6. Totality

7. The Mandala of Unconditioned Being

PART TWO
    
Mandala of the Five Buddha Families: Karmê Chöling, 1974

1. The Basic Ground

2. The Birth of the Path

3. Instinct and the Mandala Perspective

4. Three Aspects of Perception

5. A Glimpse of the Five Buddha Families

6. Sambhogakaya Buddha

Notes

G
LIMPSES OF
S
PACE
: T
HE
F
EMININE
P
RINCIPLE AND
E
VAM

Editor’s Introduction

PART ONE
    
The Feminine Principle

TALK 1
: The Mother Principle

TALK 2
: Unborn, Unceasing

TALK 3
: Nature Like Sky

TALK 4
: Prajnaparamita

PART TWO
    
E
VAM

TALK 1
: Generations of Astronauts

TALK 2
: Vajra Question Mark

TALK 3
: Missing the Boat

TALK 4
: The Chicken and the Egg

TALK 5
: Small People with Vast Vision

TALK 6
: Wash Your Dishes and Take Off Your Roof

S
ECRET
B
EYOND
T
HOUGHT
: T
HE
F
IVE
C
HAKRAS AND THE
F
OUR
K
ARMAS

The Five Chakras

The Four Karmas

S
ELECTED
W
RITINGS

The Bardo (by Chögyam Trungpa and Rigdzin Shikpo)

Femininity

Glossary

Sources

Acknowledgments