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He is a regular contributor at the Be Here Now Network with his Awakening Now Podcast. Lama Surya Das founded the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, and is also active in interfaith dialogue and charitable projects in low-income countries. He been featured in numerous publications and major media, including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many many others. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism. He 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.”įor over 45 years, Lama Surya Das has studied Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia, including the Dalai Lama’s own teachers. Lama Surya Das resides in Lexington, Massachusetts.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. *The three books that comprise his best-selling Awakening Trilogy the first trilogy of American Buddhism.

Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken From The Illusion of Separation (2015).

Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now (2011).

Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs (with Nyoshul Khenpo) (2009).

The Mind is Mightier than the Sword: Enlightening the Mind, Opening the Heart (2009).

Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Transformative Practices of Enlightened Living (2007).

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The Big Questions: How to Find Your Own Answers to Life’s Essential Mysteries (2007).

Natural Radiance: Dzogchen Pith Instructions (including seven guided meditations on CD) (2005).

Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss and Spiritual Transformation (2003).

*Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life (2000).

*Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch (1999).

*Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World (1998).

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”).

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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. 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.