The Lion’s Roar

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s work is essential for anyone who wishes to study and practice Vajrayana Buddhism. To a degree not duplicated by any other Tibetan Lama teaching in the West – he spoke our language. More than this, he spoke a poetic expansion of our language – replete with idiomatic vernacular usages. This masterful expression revealed unimagined vistas of possibility. These vistas remain vivid for the reader, more than 25 years later: their shocking immediacy undimmed by time.

Trungpa Rinpoche structured his introduction to Tantra in terms of the Nyingma nine-yana system, treating the yanas as ‘stages of the path’. One is led carefully through a detailed description of the yanas which counterbalances the personal confusion that impels practice and the radical transformation that is the result of practice.

For the scholar, there is all the information one could want about the technical details of the relation of the yanas to one another—a detailed map of the ‘journey’. For those whose urgent need is for experience, there is also the shattering inspiration of the lion’s roar. Like everything Trungpa Rinpoche said and did, this book is a palpable transmission, beyond information and doctrine.

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