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...NAROPA IN THE RIGHT PLACE
...Vietnam War and its images of monks setting themselves afire in protest. Others were in search of enlightenment that lasted longer than a tab of acid. Their quests seemed to end in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a brilliant apostle of Vajrayana and part of the Tibetan diaspora. Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Denver, an eclectic colloquium of Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures, constituted one of the great spiritual bazaars of the 1970s. One of its most popular courses, after Trungpa's dialogues with such people as Timothy Leary, was a seminar offered by Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, two former...
...Barre, Mass., and at Spirit Rock in California, turned out thousands of graduates. Zendos began spreading to Middle America, and when Chogyam Trungpa died in 1987 at age 47, a contingent of lay American-born Vajrayana Buddhists was able to perform the funeral liturgy along with Tibetans. (Last year Naropa Institute became a fully accredited college for "contemplative studies...
...hardy frontier stereotype more than the city of Boulder (pop. 95,000). Its New Age proclivities are evident on the handbills advertising everything from channeling to aromatherapy on the kiosks along the Pearl Street pedestrian mall. Boulder still accommodates a leftover '60s style, like that of its Buddhist-inspired Naropa Institute, where Allen Ginsberg still holds court each summer. And it regularly hyperventilates with an ultra-liberal world view that has prompted the city council to pronounce itself on foreign policy as readily as on sewage easements. During the Gulf War, Denver, like the rest of the U.S., appeared...
...urban meditation and study centers, the two most prominent in Boulder and in Barnet, Vt. He had tapped a vein. A section of what used to be called the counterculture desired a guru, and here he was in the flesh. By 1975, after the establishment in Boulder of the Naropa Institute, a liberal arts college, his imprimatur was everywhere. One could stick pins in a map, connect the dots and, with apologies to Amtrak, call it the Angst Express. The confused came to be made sound...