Activities and Goals

Ten Goals For the Next Ten Years

1. Audio Recovery: the preservation and remastering in multiple analog and digital formats of 10,000 sound recordings in the Vajradhatu Archives, including dharma talks by Vidyadhara the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche; Vajra Regent Ösel Tendzin; Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche; His Holiness the XVIth Gyalwa Karmapa; His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; His Eminence Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche; His Eminence Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, Rinpoche; and many others.
2. The Dharma Ocean Trust: the establishment of an endowment fund for the preservation, publication and translation of the dharma teachings of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche and other teachers.
3. Archival Facility: expansion of the current facilities of the Shambhala Archives to include additional storage vaults, a special cold storage vault for film and photographs, a room for patrons of the Archives, offices for staff, and an exhibition room.
4. Collection Guide: completion of the arrangement and description of all archival holdings related to the life and teachings of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, and publication of a repository guide to these holdings, in paper and electronic form.
5. Transcription: transcription of all sound recordings of the lectures of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, creation of archival quality paper copies of these transcripts for storage in several locations, and publication of these transcripts in electronic form.
6. Photography and Visual Art: completion of the rehousing, inventory and description of the more than 25,000 photographs and visual images in the Archives. Soliciting donations of additional photographic material related to the life of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, and other teachers. Providing digital access to photographs and visual art. Construction of a cold storage vault for photographic negatives, increasing their life expectancy by several hundred years.
7. Film and Video: inventory, arrangement and description of all of the film and video holdings in the Archives. Creation of access copies of important holdings for use by researchers. Construction of a cold storage vault for film negatives, increasing their life expectancy by several hundred years.
8. Paper Documents: completion of the inventory, arrangement and description of all paper documents related to the life of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. Instituting a program of Records Management for Shambhala International and its constituent organizations.
9. Poetry and Manuscripts: inventory, arrangement and description of the more than 1,000 poems and other manuscripts of Chögyam Trungpa and access to these materials via appropriate finding aids.
10. Oral History: continuing to collect interviews with students of Chögyam Trungpa. Transcription of these interviews and making transcripts available to researchers.