The Teacup and the Skullcup
By Chogyam Trungpa
Edited by Judith L. Lief
Edited by David Schneider
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Shambhala Publications11/19/2015Pages: 176Size: 6 x 9ISBN: 9781611802917DetailsThe Teacup and the Skullcup is made up of edited transcripts from two seminars that Chögyam Trungpa gave near the beginning of his North American teaching career in 1974—one in Barnet, Vermont, and one in Boston—called “Zen and Tantra.” Although Trungpa Rinpoche belonged to the tantra tradition, he acknowledged the strength and discipline gained from Zen influence. Through these talks you can see his respect for the Zen tradition and how it led to his using certain Zen forms for his public meditation hall rituals. He discusses the differences in style, feeling, and emphasis that distinguish the two paths and shows what each one might learn from the other.
Also included are Trungpa Rinpoche's commentary on the Ten Oxherding Pictures and an essay he composed in memory of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, a close friend with whom he continually exchanged ideas for furthering buddhadharma in America.RelatedCheck items to add to the cart orAuthor BioChögyam Trungpa (1940–1987)—meditation master, teacher, and artist—founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, the first Buddhist-inspired university in North America; the Shambhala Training program; and an international association of meditation centers known as Shambhala International. He is the author of numerous books, including Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, and The Myth of Freedom.Judith L. Lief is a Buddhist teacher, writer, and editor. She was a close student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who empowered her as a teacher, and she has edited many of his books including The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma volumes and Milarepa. She has been a teacher and practitioner for over 35 years and continues to teach and lead retreats throughout the world. Lief is also active in the field of death and dying and is the author of Making Friends with Death.Tensho David Schneider began Zen practice in 1970 and was ordained as a Zen priest in 1977. He held the position of acharya (senior teacher) in the Shambhala International community from 1996 to 2019. He is coeditor with Kazuaki Tanahashi of Essential Zen, and author of Crowded by Beauty: The Life and Zen of Poet Philip Whalen. He lives in Cologne, Germany.Praise"We may be practicing Zen in the spirit of tantra." —Chögyam Trungpa
"The Teacup and the Skullcup is a jewel box of illumined insights, alert humor, and serious genius. Every creative artist and creative meditator should have these pages to go through." —Michael McClure
"For years Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche dazzled us with his diamond wisdom at various venues from coast to coast. We delighted in his insights into the arts of Zen and its relationship to the tantric teachings. A whole generation of Buddhists was thus nourished. Now, The Teacup and the Skullcup skillfully makes available the heart of this extraordinary master to a new generation of practitioners. It should be on the bookshelf of every serious student of Buddhism." —John Daido Loori
"Trungpa Rinpoche’s astonishing take on Zen and tantra reads like a speech delivered from another planet. What we have in The Teacup and the Skullcup is less a work of explanation and exposition than a bravura performance—a wild, weird demonstration of intellectual daring and outrageously dead-on spiritual vision." —Zoketsu Norman Fischer
"In The Teacup and the Skullcup Chögyam Trungpa delivers an album of moments from 1974. For an audience connected to various Buddhist traditions, his lectures engaged different lineages of Tibetan Buddhism in tandem with Zen Buddhism. Any contemporary followers of those traditions will be engrossed in what is addressed here (and in what is not addressed). For others, Trungpa’s charismatic delivery may be a spur for sampling a further slice of tantra or dharma." —Keith Kumasen Abbott
"This elucidating compilation is a unique milestone in the annals of philosophical and phenomenological thinking, as well as Buddhist practice. Scholarly and poetic, The Teacup and the Skullcup takes on the provocative nuances of Zen and tantra as ‘consociational’ allies in a new Western matrix. The compilation of discourse shows the inimitable brilliance of one of the twentieth century’s greatest meditation masters whose ‘Socratic rap’ and generosity to students is unsurpassed. East also meets East here, one could say, with wit, aesthetic grace, and profound and subtle insight. I am so grateful." —Anne Waldman
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