Surya has appeared on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and on The Colbert Report. One segment of the ABC-TV sitcom Dharma & Greg was based on his life ("Leonard's Return"). Drawing on nearly 50 years of experience, Surya Das presents a powerful, in-depth series of meditations and inquiries for coming into deeper communion with all of life and uncovering. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him The Western Lama. He has been featured in numerous publications and major media, including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Post, Washington Post, Long Island Newsday, Long Island Business Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Jewish Free Press, New Age Journal, Tricycle Magazine, Yoga Journal, and The Oregonian. In Dzogchen Meditation Training, American-born Tibetan lama and meditation master Surya Das shares these teachings in his most immersive audio program to date. 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. For over 30 years, he has studied with the great spiritual masters of Tibet, India, and Asia. Surya is also a published poet, translator, and chant master. Lama Surya Das is one of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. The practice of Dzogchen begins with understanding the seven stages of mind training. As a best selling author, sought after speaker, teacher, and lecturer, he conducts retreats and workshops around the world. At the very basic level, Dzogchen meditation trains your mind to observe the emotions, thoughts as temporary aspects that rise and fall in your mind. He is also the founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network annual conferences with the Dalai Lama. He is an authorized lama (priest and spiritual master teacher) in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its affiliated branches. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him "the Western Lama." Surya has spent over forty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia. ![]() 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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