Could you clarify, Ken - I don't have the Weinberger, and so I checked
on the net with a vague memory of something in Miles' Ginsberg
biography: it seems from what I read that it was Trungpa who did all the
damage by inciting his disciples, while G., absent at the party in
question, later blessed his actions as proceeding from faultless guru
teaching - bad enough, certainly, but not exactly helping. All idols
have clay feet, as we know.
Martin
Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>>
> Well...two minds here. First, Eliot Weinberger's version of what
> Ginsberg helped do to Merwin at Naropa, under the direction of Chogyam
> Trungpa, is in _Works On Paper_. I was ruined for Ginsberg after
> that. Naropa became Ginsberg's My Own Private Abu Ghraib and he was
> one of the guys in uniform. It's hard to trust anyone or the thoughts
> of the supposed acolytes after that.
>
> ken
>
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