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.Where Is the Method to Our Integral Madness? An Outline for Integral Meta-Studies Mark Edwards.Navigating the Meaning Crisis John Vervaeke, Nomali Perera.No Beginnings, No Endings: A Dialogue with Living Jazz Great Wayne Shorter Greg Thomas.How Self-Hatred Can Lead to Self Transformation Dr.The Highest Stages of Conscious Development Terri O'Fallon, Keith Martin-Smith.The Edge of the Future: Education, Civilization, and the Metacrisis Zach Stein, John Dupuy, Roger Walsh.Illuminating the Integral Vision: A Metatheory for Understanding Self, Life, and the World Corey deVos, John Dupuy, Roger Walsh.His blog, “Ask the Lama,” can be found at his lecture and retreat schedule are listed on his website The 8 Perspectival Zones of Emergence Ken Wilber He is also a published poet, translator, and chant master. He is also active in interfaith dialogue and charitable projects in the Third World, and has recently turned his efforts towards youth and contemplative education initiatives, what he calls “True higher education and wisdom for life training.”Īs a sought after speaker, Lama Surya Das teaches and lectures around the world, conducting meditation retreats and workshops. As founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, he regularly helps organize its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences. Surya has brought many Tibetan lamas to this country to teach and start centers and retreats over the years. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its branch centers around the United States. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, and a personal disciple of the leading grand lamas of that tradition. Lama Surya Das has spent over forty years studying Zen, Vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers. The Snow Lion’s Turquoise Mane: Wisdom Tales from Tibet Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs, with Nyoshul Khenpo The Big Questions: How to Find Your Own Answers to Life’s Essential MysteriesĪwakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning, Natural Radiance: Awakening to Your Great Perfectionīuddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Transformative Practices of Enlightened Living The Mind Is Mightier Than the Sword: Enlightening the Mind, Opening the Heart His other books include:īuddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now He is well known for his internationally bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World and the sequels in the “Awakening” trilogy, Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch and Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life. His most recent book is Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western Lama.” 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.
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