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During this period, he also published his first two books, both in English: Born in Tibet (1966) and Meditation in Action (1969).

In 1968 Trungpa Rinpoche traveled to Bhutan, where he entered into a solitary meditation retreat. It was a time of fascination with the East. He also received full monastic ordina­tion.

The late 1950s were a time of great upheaval in Tibet.

In 1976 he established the Shambhala Training program, a series of seminars that present a nonsectarian path of spiritual warriorship grounded in the practice of sitting meditation. The text documents the spiritual degeneration of modern times and provides its antidote, genuine spirituality that leads to the experience of naked and luminous mind.

While on retreat, Rinpoche received a terma text that would influence all of his teaching in the West, The Sadhana of Mahamudra*. The monastery's late abbot, was ChogyamTrungpa Rinpoche.

He has studied the traditions of Surmangunder the tutelage of the late Lama Kenla, and received his earlymonasticeducation at the shedra at Palpung Monastery.

Later he formed the Nālandā Translation Committee in order to trans­late texts and liturgies for his own students as well as to make important texts available publicly.

Trungpa Rinpoche was also known for his interest in the arts and particularly for his insights into the relationship between con­templative discipline and the artistic process.

In 1958, at the age of eighteen, Trungpa Rinpoche completed his studies, receiving the degrees of kyorpön (doctor of divinity) and khenpo (master of studies). The goal of creating an enlightened society is fundamental to the Shambhala teachings. He is survived by his wife, Diana Judith Mukpo, and five sons. His book Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior (1984) gives an overview of the Shambhala teachings.

However, he expressed a convic­tion that in order for the dharma to take root in the West, it needed to be taught free from cultural trappings and religious fascination.

During the seventies, America was in a period of political and cultural ferment.

He lectured extensively at the institute, and his book Journey without Goal (1981) is based on a course he taught there. He established major centers in Vermont, Colorado, and Nova Scotia, as well as many smaller meditation and study centers in cities throughout North America and Europe. Following this, he engaged in intensive study and practice of the traditional monastic disciplines, including traditional Tibetan poetry and monastic dance.

During his seventeen years of teaching in North America, he crafted the structures necessary to provide his students with thorough, systematic training in the dharma.