Personal Ecumenism
My own personal ecumenism. Part of me feels disingenuous regarding the spirit of this blog, that my-own-personal-ecumenism is a little too cognitive, a little too conceptual, a little too wishful, a little too witty. At the same time I’m reconnecting with the resonance I felt with the phrase, which occurred to me 4 days ago, as I write this. Jamgon Kongtrul of Shechen, root teacher of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and one of the founders of the Rime movement within Tibetan Buddhism. I’ll say a little about the circumstances in which it arose. I was cleaning my kitchen and listening to a talk by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche on his guru, Jamgon Kongtrul of Shechen (you can listen to the talk here ). Kongtrul Rinpoche was one of the founders of the Rime (ree-may) movement within Tibetan Buddhism. Trungpa Rinpoche was disparaging the western academic interpretation of the Rime movement as eschewing distinctions between the different lineages within Tibetan Buddhism. My sense is