Lama Surya Das

The name he was given by his American birth parents was Jeffrey Miller. His family was Jewish. After graduating with honors from college in NY, he traveled throughout Europe and the East. He has spent nearly thirty years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism with many of the great old masters of Asia including the Dalai Lama. His studies included 15 years in India and the Himalayas and eight years in a cloistered Tibetan retreat. He wrote several books a group of 3 called the Awakening Trilogy are favorites.

He currently teaches and lectures around the world at such places as at Esalen, Open Center, Omega Institute, Interface, at universities in the United States and abroad, and at spiritual centers of all kinds. He also contributes regularly to Tricycle magazine, New Age, and Yoga Journal. He currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Lama Surya Das Practices Rime

Picture is Rime letters in Tibetan

The Rimé Movement was designed to recognize the differences between traditions and appreciate them, while also establishing a dialogue which would create common ground. There are actually five major branches of Buddhism: Sakya, Gelugpa, Nyingma, Kagu, and Bonpo. The Rimé Movement was designed to recognize the differences between traditions and appreciate them, while also establishing a dialogue which would create common ground. It is considered important that variety be preserved, and therefore Rimé teachers are generally quite careful to emphasize differences in thought, giving students many options as to how to proceed in their spiritual training. instrumental in re-initiating dialogue between the sects. Rimé was, to some extent, the re-establishment of a rule or principle that had always been present in Tibetan Buddhism, but that had been de-emphasized or forgotten. That is: to ignorantly criticize other traditions was wrong, and that misunderstandings due to ignorance should be immediately alleviated. Lama Surya Das organized several weeklong International Buddhist Teachers Conferences with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, and America.

What is Dzogchen?

Dzogchen is the consummate practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Dzogchen is direct, immediate, essentailized, adaptable and profound: a pure awareness practice applicable to any circumstance and redily integrated into modern life. The word Dzogchen can be translated as the Natural Great Perfection, directly introduces us to your inner Buddha, the inherent freedom, purity and perfection of being which is our true nature.

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