[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Inspiring American Buddhists

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

January 21, 2007

INSPIRING AMERICAN BUDDHISTS

Student: Do you think a new kind of tantric [artistic] tradition might 
develop here in the West, if art is being done by Buddhist meditator artists?

Chogyam Trungpa: I very much hope so....It has to be American Buddhists who 
become inspired. It is only they who have the understanding to work with 
the Western world. It is necessary to have that situation. We reach a 
point, a limit to how far we can live on imports. There's some point where 
we better manufacture things for ourselves rather than borrowing from 
somebody else. Otherwise, we will be enormously in debt.

 From "The Doha Tradition," Talk Twelve  of Fourteen, from THE TIBETAN 
BUDDHIST PATH, Summer, 1974, Naropa University. Forthcoming as a DVD series 
from shambhalashop.com.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by 
permission.

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