An Evening With Lama Surya Das October 9, 2008

Lama Surya Das will lead a guided meditation, give a talk and answer questions.

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars and is a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. Surya Das has been especially instrumental in bringing the Tibetan Dzogchen teachings to practitioners in the West.

Surya Das 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 retreat at his teacher's "Nyoshul Khenpo" monastery. He is an authorized lama in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism and is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its branch centers in New York City, New Jersey, California, Portland, and Texas.

Surya Das is the author of numerous books on Buddhist practice, including "Buddha is As Buddha Does", "Awakening the Buddha Within", "Awakening to the Sacred", "Awakening the Buddhist Heart", "Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be", "The Sno
w Lion's Turquoise Mane", and "Natural Great Perfection".
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, with his wife.

Official Website: http://www.vipassanasc.org/events.html