Surya Das
Lama Surya Das | |
|---|---|
| Title | Lama Surya Das |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Jeffrey Miller 1950 (age 75–76) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Religious educator |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Nyingma |
| Website | surya |
Surya Das (born Jeffrey Miller in 1950) is an American lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist, author of many popular works on Buddhism, meditation teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. He has been accused of sexual misconduct by several of his former students.
Surya Das is a Dharma heir of Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, a Nyingma master of the non-sectarian Rime movement, with whom he founded the Dzogchen Foundation and Center in 1991. He received Nyoshul Khenpo's authorization to teach in 1993.
His name, which means "Servant of the Sun" in a combination of Sanskrit (sūrya) and Hindi (das, from the Sanskrit dāsa), was given to him in 1972 by the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba. Surya Das is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.