Ch gyam Trungpa--meditation master, scholar, and artist--was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku , or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher.
The following year, the Chinese Communists invaded Tibet, and the young Trungpa spent many harrowi.
As the eleventh in the teaching lineage known as the Trungpa tulkus, he underwent a period of intensive training in meditation, philosophy, and fine arts, receiving full ordination as a monk in 1958 at the age of eighteen.
Ch gyam Trungpa--meditation master, scholar, and artist--was identified at the age of only thirteen months as a major tulku , or reincarnation of an enlightened teacher