Congratulations are in order. CBC:
The queen of the Shambhala Buddhist community gave birth to a baby girl Wednesday morning in Halifax.
Her name is Drukmo Yeshe Sarasvati Ziji Mukpo, which means Lady Dragon Wisdom. I don’t know what her arrival means, if anything, for the schism that has developed between the old American hippies who followed Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche to Halifax in 1986, and the younger generation that follows the more doctrinaire teachings of Trungpa’s son, and the Lady Dragon’s father, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
The old guard brought a lot of good to Halifax, and their dissent continues to sometime boil over the top in the Shambhala community, such as with the recent establishment of Radio Free Shambala. As of today, however, the dissenters have not commented on the arrival of a new princess.
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This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
Tim,
It’s important to note that the situation is not quite so cut-and-dry as your article would have us believe. There’s a large number of the “old American hippies” that consider Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche one of their principle teachers, and also a number of the “younger generation” that would identify as what you have classified as “dissenters”.
Also, “doctrinaire”? That’s a pretty strong word. I wonder if you’ve ever heard Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche or Trungpa Rinpoche teach?