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Lama Surya Das

Lama Surya Das

1950 CE · Modern · Brooklyn (NY)

b. 1950 (living)

Lama Surya Das (b. Jeffrey Miller, 1950) is an American teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma/Dzogchen tradition. After traveling to Asia in the early 1970s and completing traditional Tibetan retreats, he became a dharma heir of the Nyingma master Nyoshul Khenpo and in 1991 founded the Dzogchen Center near Boston. He is known as an author and popularizer of Tibetan Buddhism for Western lay practitioners, including the 'Awakening' book series. He continues to teach.

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Brooklyn (NY)ברוקליןNew York, USA

What they did here

DOCUMENTED: born Jeffrey Miller in 1950; traveled to Asia in the early 1970s in search of meditation teachers.

About Brooklyn (NY)

Modern center of multiple Hasidic dynasties (Lubavitch in Crown Heights, Satmar in Williamsburg, Bobov in Borough Park) plus Modern Orthodox communities.

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Works(1)

Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

Cambridge, Massachusetts · 1997

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