![]() The Snow Lion’s Turquoise Mane: Wisdom Tales from Tibet (1992).Surya has appeared on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, and twice on The Colbert Report. ![]() ![]() One segment of the ABC-TV sitcom Dharma & Greg was based on his life (“Leonard’s Return”). Surya Das has been featured in numerous publications and major media, including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Post, Long Island Newsday, Long Island Business Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The Jewish Free Press, New Age Journal, Tricycle Magazine, Yoga Journal, The Oregonian, Science of Mind, and has been the subject of a seven-minute magazine story on CNN. Learn more about Lama Surya Das on his website Surya Das is the author of 14 books, including the national best seller "Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World". He is a published author, translator, chant master (see Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart CD, with Stephen Halpern), and a regular contributor at the Be Here Now Network with his Awakening Now Podcast, as well as his own blog site. Lama Surya Das is a sought-after speaker and lecturer, teaching and conducting meditation retreats and workshops around the world. In recent years, Lama Surya has turned his efforts and focus towards youth and contemplative education initiatives, what he calls “True higher education and wisdom for life training.” He is also active in interfaith dialogue and charitable projects in low-income countries. As founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, he regularly helps organize its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences. Over the years, Surya has brought many Tibetan lamas to this country to teach and start centers and retreats. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Personal disciple of the leading grand lamas of that tradition. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, and a close Surya has spent over forty-five years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers, and has twice completed the traditional three-year meditation cloistered retreat at his teacher’s Tibetan monastery. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western Lama.” He resides in Concord, Massachusetts, outside of Boston.Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. When he's not meditating, teaching, or attending a retreat, Surya Das enjoys music, dogs, swimming, bicycling, hiking, and haiku poetry. He is also a regular contributor to Tricycle magazine, New Age, and Yoga Journal. He also teaches regularly at Esalen, Open Center, Omega Institute, Interface, at universities in the United States and abroad, and at spiritual centers of all kinds. Based on his relationship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Surya Das founded the Western Buddhist Teachers Network and has organized three week-long conferences of Western Buddhist Meditation Teachers with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. Today, Lama Surya Das teaches and lectures around the world, conducting dozens of meditation retreats and workshops each year. While a student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he attended antiwar protests, marched on Washington, and attended Woodstock.Īfter graduating with honors from college, he traveled throughout Europe and the East, and he has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia. Born Jeffrey Miller, he was raised in Valley Stream on New York's Long Island, where he celebrated his bar mitzvah and earned letters in basketball, baseball, and soccer at Valley Stream Central High School (class of 1968). Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. Journal of Integral Theory and Practice.Free Intro Course - Build Your Integral Life.Shadows of Development Kim Barta, Keith Martin-Smith.Toward a Fourth Turning of Buddhism Ken Wilber.Grappling with the Metacrisis Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Nicholas Hedlund, Roger Walsh, John Dupuy.Accountability Matters: A Call for Ethics, Empathy, and Equality Mark Fischler, Corey deVos.Ontological Shock: The Accelerating Emergence of Artificial Intelligence Robb Smith, Bruce Alderman, Corey deVos.Mastery, Collaboration, and Finding Your Unique Healing Style Dr.Shadow, Trauma, and Attachment: Why Do Spiritual Teachers Keep Messing Up? Keith Martin-Smith.Peace, Love, and Politics: A Campaign to Transform America Marianne Williamson, Mark Fischler, Corey deVos.
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