LAMA SURYA DAS is one of the foremost Western lamas and Buddhist teachers, and founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Centers. He twice completed the traditional three-year, three-month, three-day Tibetan meditation retreats at his teacher’s monastery cloister.
Lama Surya Das is the author of the best-selling Awakening the Buddha Within and five other books, as well as innumerable published essays. A poet and translator, he is a regular columnist on Beliefnet.com, leads retreats around the world, and is active in interfaith dialogue and charitable work in Asian countries. He lived in the Himalayas for fifteen years, and with his Holiness the Dalai Lama founded the Western Buddhist Teachers Conferences.
The Dzogchen Center conducts meditation retreats, workshops, classes, and other activities in the dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, including a hundred-day annual retreat at the Dzogchen Retreat Center outside Austin, Texas. Founded by Lama Surya Das in 1991, it is dedicated to transmission and transformation via Buddhist ethics, wisdom practices, and compassionate action in a manner accessible to all.

Lama Surya Das in The Translucent Revolution:

“Religion and spirituality have to be a force for harmony in this world, not a force for strife. We need to really go deeper and connect as authentically and truly as we can; dedicate ourselves to really finding meaning and purpose through spiritual practice.  Not just being a member of something, part of a new fad, or a team. Not just being a Buddhist, but becoming a Buddha."

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