Lama Surya Das

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “the American Lama.” Lama Surya has spent more than 45 years studying Zen, Vipassana, Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia, including some the Dalai Lama’s own teachers. He is an authorized lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order, a leading spokesperson for Buddhism and contemporary spirituality, a translator, poet, meditation master, chant master and social-spiritual activist.

Lama Surya Das is the author of the international bestselling Awakening trilogy: “Awakening the Buddha Within, “Awakening to the Sacred” and “Awakening the Buddhist Heart,” as well as his latest book “Make Me One with Everything: Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation,” and 10 other books. In 1991 he established the Dzogchen Centers and Dzogchen Retreats and in 1993, with the Dalai Lama, he founded the Western Buddhist Teachers Network and regularly organizes its International Buddhist Teachers’ Conferences.

Lama Surya Das is a regular contributor at The Huffington Post and Elephant Journal, as well as writing his own blog Ask The Lama.  Lama Surya can be followed on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; his own podcast Awakening Now can be found on the Be Here Now Network. For more information on Surya, as well as his lecture and retreat schedule, visit www.surya.org.