By Wendy Friedman
The Shambhala Archives will be offering their third exhibit in just over a year* this August in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The exhibit will recreate Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s famous office, which for many years was at 1345 Spruce Street in Boulder and, in his final year of life, was relocated to the Halifax Shambhala Centre, where this exhibit will take place.
Visitors will be able to experience an Archival re-creation of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s office, featuring iconic objects and archival personal items, assembled for this special exhibit to mark Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche’s historic visit to Halifax and our community. The exhibit will be open to everyone on August 4th & August 6th, 9:30 am – 11:30 am, in the Chogyam Trungpa Suite, Second Floor, 1084 Tower Road, Halifax, NS.
For the exhibit, the Archives team will craft the objects and environment of this office, where so many important meetings and events took place, as well as so many profound personal connections, interviews, and conversations that students had with their teacher, guide, and friend. Everything from his selection of incense to the framed photos he kept next to his desk will be just as he chose.
Based on archival photographs (see photo) and personal recollections, we are able to assemble objects from the collections that Trungpa Rinpoche and Lady Diana left to the Archives, which were originally part of his office environment, as well as additional pieces that we feel will be meaningful and appropriate for this exhibit. 
Among the Shambhala Archives many holdings, the Archives cares for all of Trungpa Rinpoche’s personal and household belongings. Curating batches of these extraordinary items into exhibits is one way we aspire to share the collections and his world with all of you.
Everyone is welcome to visit the exhibit and experience well-known objects from Rinpoche’s eyeglasses to his briefcase with contents still intact, and the ambience of Trungpa Rinpoche’s legendary office known as “A-Suite”
*The Archives previous exhibits this year included an exhibit about the connection between Chogyam Trungpa and Padmasambhava entitled “O Jetsun Guru Rinpoche” You can view a video tour of that exhibit here: https://shambhalaarchives.org/
The other exhibit was in Boulder “Women in Buddhism – Shaping the Shambhala Tradition” You can view an introduction to that exhibit here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qBkLzZGx0-3sDHnJgWv2eB45IK9wapWG/view
We hope to share more of this exhibit soon!
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