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On the Cremation of Chogyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara
A poem by Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American Beat poet and a practicing Buddhist. He and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in 1974.
Negative Capability: Kerouac’s Buddhist Ethic
Jack Kerouac’s interest in Buddhism began after he spent some time with Neal Cassady, who had taken on an interest in the local California variety of New Age spiritualism, particularly the work of Edgar Cayce. Kerouac…
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