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LAMA SURYA DAS
BIOGRAPHY
| Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. 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). While a student at the State University of New
York at Buffalo, he attended antiwar protests, marched on Washington, and
attended Woodstock. After 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 the great old
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Interview with Lama Surya Das on Buddhistgeeks.com
Snow Lion author Lama Surya Das recently gave a Podcast interview for Buddhist Geeks. The interview can be read at BG 190: Living in Buddha Standard Time. The site also includes an audio version of the interview: MP3 audio file. Please note that the audio file begins with a one-minute fundraising pitch by BuddhsistGeeks, before the interview.
Episode Description: "We speak with Lama Surya Das this week about what it takes to integrate spiritual understanding into our lives as 21st century citizens. He explores the question of whether our sense of time has sped up in the “over-information age,” and how we can change our relationship to time. He also shares the outlines of what he calls the Six Building Blocks of a Spiritual Life—a post-traditional model aimed at integrating the inner and outer dimensions of life.
"We conclude our discussion by looking at what he calls, “Positive Buddhism.” Positive Buddhism is a formulation of the Buddhist teachings that emphasize some of the more life-affirming aspects of the awakened life, instead of some of the more life-denying aspects, such as suffering, renunciation, and non-attachment." (This is part 2 of a two-part series.) |
Surya lived for fifteen years in the Himalayas, studied and practiced meditation and yoga under the great enlightened master of Tibet and India. He was a Buddhist monk and has twice completed the traditional three year, three month Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat and lama training at his teacher's monastery cloister. He is the author of many top-selling books and had published numerous articles in various publications. Surya is a featured columnist in Beliefnet, the Internet’s number one site for religion. He is the Founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network and introduced its week-long conferences with the Dalai Lama.
Today, Lama Surya Das teaches and lectures around the world, conducting
dozens of meditation retreats and workshops in ten different countries each
year. Based on his relationship with 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. 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.
When he's not meditating, teaching, or attending a
retreat, Surya Das enjoys music, dogs, swimming, bicycling, hiking, and haiku
poetry. He resides in Concord, Massachusetts, outside of Boston.
For more information about Lama Surya Das, visit:
SCHEDULE
Visit http://www.surya.org/tour_dates.html for Lama Das' updated schedule, or view more detailed information, scheduled teachers (including
associate teachers) at http://www.dzogchen.org/teachings
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BOOKS
Lama Surya Das is the author/contributor to several books and recordings, including:
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