stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

CHAPTER XVI
A WILD AND CRAZY
WISDOM GUY
(CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA)
CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA, BORN IN 1939, is the first of the “crazy wisdom”
masters whose effect on North American spirituality we will be
considering.
The night of my conception my mother had a very significant
dream that a being had entered her body with a flash of
light; that year flowers bloomed in the neighborhood although
it was still winter, to the surprise of the inhabitants....
I was born in the cattle byre [shed]; the birth came easily.
On that day a rainbow was seen in the village, a pail
supposed to contain water was unaccountably found full of
milk, while several of my mother’s relations dreamt that a
lama was visiting their tents (Trungpa, 1977).
As the eleventh incarnation of the Trungpa Tulku, the milkfed
sage was raised from his childhood to be the supreme abbot of
the Surmang monasteries in eastern Tibet.
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