Naropa University

Colorado

Allen Ginsberg and a fellow poet, sharing a room one summer in Boulder, came up with the name the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

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A Tibetan Buddhist teacher started this school in 1974, and one of his first moves was to ask some poets to build him a poetry department. He asked Allen Ginsberg. He asked Anne Waldman and Diane di Prima. He also asked the composer John Cage. Ginsberg and Waldman roomed together that first summer session, and between them they came up with the name for the poetry program: the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. It still exists here, and Beat poets have been passing through it ever since. The founder was Chögyam Trungpa, an exiled Tibetan tulku who entered the United States in 1970. The university carries the name of an eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage, Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. Its first degrees, offered in 1975 and 76, included a bachelor's in Buddhist studies and visual art, and certificates in dance, theater and poetics.

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Ginsberg and Waldman, who roomed together that first summer, came up with the name for the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

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