The journey that began in Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior reaches a new level of intimacy and depth in this book, based on talks Chogyam Trungpa gave in the last ten years of his life.

Trungpa possessed uncanny insight into our deepest fears, and how these are heightened by the pressures of today's society. He addresses many of them here: the speed and alienation of modern life; depression; materialism; aggression, anger, and anxiety; and a crippling lack of self-worth.

Trungpa also held an unshakable belief in human goodness and our ability to create an enlightened human society. His most ardent message is that each of us is a genuine and powerful individual who can help this world. Throughout the book, he evokes the image of a spark or dot of goodness that is always available to us -- the fuse for igniting warriorship in our lives. In every line of this extraordinary and uplifting work, he challenges us to embrace life and to find the Great Eastern Sun, the spark of sacredness and health in every moment.
Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala, Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 270pp, $29.95

Chogyam Trungpa was born in Eastern Tibet and recognized as an incarnation of the Trungpa line at an early date. He studied with, among others, one of the reincarnations of the Jamgyon Kongtrul who wrote the most famous commentary on the Seven Points. In 1959 he fled to India in the wake of the Communist takeover in Tibet, courageously leading many of his people to safety (this period is described in his book Born in Tibet.) He came to England in the mid-sixties to study at Oxford, learned English, started to teach, and started one of the first Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. He later dropped his monastic vows, married, and moved to America where he continued his teaching. He founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a large and highly respected Buddhist university, as well as the Shambhala organization. The influence of both his teaching and his books on American Buddhism was and still is enormous.

CONTENTS: Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala
Illustrations		xi
List of Poems		xiii
Foreword		xv
Preface		xvii
Prologue The Kingdom, the Cocoon, the Great Eastern Sun		1
PART ONE -- PROFOUND
PRIMORDIAL STROKE
1	A Dot in the Open Sky	17
2	Working with Early Morning Depression	26
3	Overcoming Physical Materialism	37
THE PRIMORDIAL DOT
4	The Cosmic Sneeze	53
5	Discipline in the Four Seasons	61
6	Mirrorlike Wisdom	70
PART TWO -- BRILLIANT
SACRED EXISTENCE -- JOINING HEAVEN AND EARTH
7	Sacredness: Natural Law and Order	83
8	The King of Basic Goodness	92
9	How to Cultivate the Great Eastern Sun	104
PART THREE -- JUST
THE PASSION TO BE
10	Blamelessness: How to Love Yourself	117
11	Attaining the Higher Realms	126
12	The Big No	136
FEARLESS RELAXATION
13	Aloneness and the Seven Virtues of the Higher Realms	148
14	The King of the Four Seasons	161
PART FOUR -- POWERFUL
THE WARRIOR'S CRY
15	The Basic Gasp of Goodness	171
16	Helping Others	174
17	Transmission	185
PART FIVE -- ALL-VICTORIOUS
THE WARRIOR'S SMILE
18	A Question of Heart	191
19	The Mukpo Clan	195
20	Beyond Depression	203
21	The Great Eastern Sun: The Dot in Space	208
Epilogue		211
Afterword		215
Glossary		233
Sources		241
Author's Notes		245
Resources		249
Books by Chogyam Trungpa		251
Index		253