Area’s mindfulness ties go back decades

Northern Colorado has strong ties to meditation and mindfulness, thanks in large part to two men: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism who died in 1987, and R. Adam Engle, a Boulder County resident who co-founded the Mind and Life Institute.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

In the 1970s, Trungpa Rinpoche founded what is now known as Naropa University and what has become the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Shambhala community. Shambhala is open to all faiths, has a strong presence in northern Colorado and has more than 200 meditation and arts centers and groups in more than 50…