Tibetan Dharma in America (121)

When I came on the scene there were two approaches to learning Tibetan Buddhism in North America, students who practice traditional texts in English and those of us who do it in Tibetan.

 

Early on I had a brush with those who advocated English when I met the great siddha, the Ven. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, but as it turned out my own root lama was more conservative, the Ven. Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, and he had us do our dharma practice in Tibetan.