Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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  • Summary: Chogyam Trungpa, renowned Tibetan Buddhist leader, shattered notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave when he renounced his monk's vows & eloped with a sixteen year-old aristocrat. Twenty years after his death, Trungpa's name still evokes admiration and outrage. What made him tick? And just what is enlightenment, anyway? (Crazy Wisdom Productions)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    Dec 1, 2011
    70
    The late Chogyam Trungpa's very colorful life makes for a most engaging narrative here.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Justin Lowe
    Dec 1, 2011
    60
    Crazy Wisdom offers a perceptive, if one-sided, perspective on Trungpa's impact on American spirituality and the arts.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Dec 1, 2011
    50
    Director Johanna Demetrakas has decided to simply present the man in all his demanding complexities and let him and his encounters with associates speak for themselves. Her only rubric is the one visible in her title: "Crazy Wisdom."
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    Dec 1, 2011
    38
    A documentary hardly anybody has been waiting for.

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