The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume Seven (91 page)

Instead of Americanism, Speak the English Language Properly!

Humor and Delight with the English Language

Playing with the English Language

S
ELECTED
W
RITINGS

“Art and Education: A public talk given at Naropa Institute by Vajracharya the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, June 24, 1979.”
The Vajradhatu Sun
1, no. 6 (August/September 1979): 21, 28. © 1979 by Diana J. Mukpo.

“Art of Simplicity: ‘Discovering Elegance.’”
The Vajradhatu Sun
(December 1988 / January 1989): 8. © 1981 by The Vajradhatu Sun.

“Basic Sanity in Theatre.”
The Vajradhatu Sun
2, no. 3 (February/March 1980). © 1980 by Diana J. Mukpo.

“Dharma Art Stresses Harmony and Elegance.”
The Vajradhatu Sun
(August

September 1981). © 1980 by The Vajradhatu Sun.

Empowerment
, liner notes. Boulder: Vajradhatu Recordings, 1976. Liner notes © 1976 by Diana J. Mukpo. Used by permission.

“Heaven, Earth, and Man: Calligraphies with Commentary.”
Shambhala Sun
(March 2000): 67–71. © 1991 by Diana J. Mukpo.

Introduction to
Disciples of the Buddha
by Robert Newman. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Cool Grove Press, 2001. Introduction © 2000 by Diana J. Mukpo. Used by permission.

“Perception and the Appreciation of Reality.”
Kalapa Ikebana Newsletter
(Winter 1984): 1–2. © 1984, Diana J. Mukpo.

“Poetics,” with Allen Ginsberg.
Shambhala Sun
(January/February 1993): 56–58. © 1993 by Diana J. Mukpo.

“Poets’ Colloquium,” by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, W. S. Merwin, Chögyam Trungpa, Anne Waldman, and Philip Whalen, with Rick Fields, David Rome, and Joshua Zim.
Loka II: A Journal from Naropa Institute
. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1976, pp. 164–75. © 1976 by Nalanda Foundation/Naropa Institute. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

“Prajna.”
Loka: A Journal from Naropa Institute
. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1975, pp. 139–43. © 1976 by Diana J. Mukpo. Used by permission.

Proclamation
. A play by the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, performed by the Mudra Theater Group, Midsummer Day, 1980.
The Vajradhatu Sun
2, no. 6 (August/September 1980). © 1980 by Diana J. Mukpo.

“Testimonial.”
Loka II: A Journal from Naropa Institute
. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1976, p. 155. © 1976 by Nalanda Foundation/ Naropa Institute. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

“Tibetan Poetics.”
Loka II: A Journal from Naropa Institute
. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1976, pp. 153–54. © 1976 by Nalanda Foundation/Naropa Institute. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

“Visual Dharma: Film Workshop on the Tibetan Buddhist View of Aesthetics and Filmmaking.”
Chicago Review
24, no. 3 (Winter 1972): 77–89. © 1972 by Diana J. Mukpo. Used by permission.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

M
ANY PEOPLE CONTRIBUTED
to the writings that make up Volume Seven of
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa
. Overall, for their contributions to Chögyam Trungpa’s poetry, first and foremost I would like to acknowledge David I. Rome and Allen Ginsberg, whose involvement with Trungpa Rinpoche’s poetry is discussed in the introduction. In addition to Allen Ginsberg, thanks are due to all the other poets, especially those at Naropa, who influenced Chögyam Trungpa’s work as a poet and as a dharma teacher. Special thanks to Anne Waldman, who had a long poetic and dharmic relationship with Chögyam Trungpa. I would also like to thank John Castlebury, both for publishing Chögyam Trungpa’s work in the
Windhorse
broadside and for having organized and entered all the poems of Chögyam Trungpa onto the computer, which is a great help to those working with his poetry. Thanks also to James Gimian
of Trident Publications
, the publisher
of Warrior Songs
and
Royal Songs
for his commitment to those projects. From earlier days, I would also like to thank Beverley Webster, Connie Berman, and Helen Green who worked for Chögyam Trungpa in the Office of the President at Vajradhatu, where they gathered together, retyped, filed, and made available the poetry of Chögyam Trungpa during the last ten years of his life. During this period Richard Roth and Sarah Coleman helped to edit the poetry of Chögyam Trungpa; thanks to them for their efforts as well. To the many other unknown and unnamed persons who helped to type, edit, and keep track of Rinpoche’s poems, we also owe a debt of gratitude. In England, Richard Arthure worked with the poetry. He was a primary editor of
Mudra
. There were others, now unknown, and we can be grateful to all who helped.

There are a great number of people who worked with Chögyam Trungpa on dharma art and his various artistic creations and enterprises. The attempt to list them all is bound to fail, so I will limit myself here to a general acknowledgment and a bow of thanks to the many, many people who worked with Chögyam Trungpa, learned from him, and in many cases helped him to learn about various areas of artistic work. For their specific help in the preparation of Volume Seven, I would like to thank Johanna Demetrakas, Baird Bryant, Lee Worley, Jean-Claude van Itallie, David I. Rome, Andy Karr, Johanna Rotte, Jean Thies, Ludwig Turzanski, Gina Etra Stick, Karen Hayward, and Judith Lief. For help in obtaining copies of the
Kalapa Journal
, thanks to Hudson Shotwell and Richard Peisinger. For the introduction in
Disciples of the Buddha
, I would like to thank both Robert Newman and his publisher Tej Hazarika of Cool Grove Press. Robert and I reconnected, and Tej and I met over a misunderstanding and became friends. For permission to quote lines of poetry by the Vajra Regent Ösel Tendzin, I would like to thank Mrs. Lila Rich. These appear as lines alternating with Chögyam Trungpa’s in “Don’t Go to the Dentist with Such Good Teeth.”