Thus I Have Heard is a selection of highlights from five public teachings given by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche ranging from meditation instruction at the first summer session of Naropa University in 1974 to a vision for enlightened society to an audience in Boston in 1982.

Thus I Have Heard: The Teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kalapa Recordings, 65 minutes, DVD, 2004, $25.00

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 universit