He is the author of many books, including Buddha is as Buddha Does: The Ten Transformative Practices of Enlightened Living (April 2007), Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World, Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life, and Awakening to the Sacred (the three books that comprise his bestselling Awakening Trilogy, the first trilogy of Buddhism for the West). Lama Surya Das is a published poet, translator, and chant master (see Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart CD, with Stephen Halpern). Surya Das is a sought after speaker, and teaches, lectures, and conducts retreats around the world. Founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, he is also active in interfaith dialogue and social activism and regularly organizes its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its branch centers in New York City, New Jersey, California, Portland, and Texas. He is an authorized lama (priest and spiritual master teacher) in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism. Surya has spent thirty 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 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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