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 the Third World. As a 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 centres and retreats. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center and Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its branch centres around the country. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism, and a close personal disciple of the leading grand lamas of that tradition. They offer an ideal opportunity to engage with powerful instructions, teachings, and practices of the Dzogchen tradition in the comfort and convenience of your own sacred space. 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 teachers, and has twice completed the traditional three-year meditation cloistered retreat at his teacher’s Tibetan monastery. Our live virtual meditation retreats focus on providing an online container for the transmission of insight led by Lama Surya Das. 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 foremost interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. Students seeking to overcome stress and improve their overall academic and personal well-being have an opportunity to learn about meditation, yoga and other contemplative methods during an on-campus talk by Western Buddhist meditation teacher and author Lama Surya Das scheduled on Jan.
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