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.” 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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