by Chögyam Trungpa · Shambhala · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781570628184
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«Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala» is the Buddhist essay by Chögyam Trungpa, published by Shambhala in paperback (296 pages, in English).
It continues «Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior» and asks how to live authentically from now on. Trungpa proposes discovering the goodness that already exists in every person, letting go of the ego's justifications, and embodying the Shambhala warrior, someone who does not give in to aggression or society's contradictions.
Edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian, this edition belongs to Shambhala Dragon Editions. It was nominated for the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) in the Religion category.
For readers of Buddhism and Eastern philosophy, both those who meditate and those approaching Shambhala teachings for the first time.
Chögyam Trungpa, formally named the 11th Zurmang Trungpa, Chokyi Gyatso, was a Tibetan Buddhist master and holder of both Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He was recognized by both Tibetan Buddhists and other spiritual practitioners and scholars as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a major figure in the dissemination of Buddhism in the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method. The 11th of the Trungpa tülkus, he was a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of Shambhala Buddhist tradition.
