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Actor

Chögyam Trungpa

Acting

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Acting credits

2

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.2

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Movies: 2Series: 0

TMDB ID: 1948158

IMDb ID: nm2503590

Known for: Acting

Born: March 5, 1939

Died: April 4, 1987

Age: 48

Place of birth: Kham, Tibet

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2007 - 2011

Years active: 5

Average TMDB rating: 6.96

Wikidata: Q548323

Also known as

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Biography

Chögyam Trungpa was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, the 11th of the Trungpa tülkus, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Tibetan Buddhist teachings and the myth of Shambhala as an enlightened society that was later called Shambhala 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.