Awakening the Buddha Within _ Eight Steps to Enlightenment - Lama Surya Das [182]
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For almost thirty years, Lama Surya Das has studied and lived with the great spiritual masters of Asia. He has twice completed the traditional three-year Vajrayana meditation retreat in a Tibetan monastery in southern France. A leading spokesperson for the emerging Western Buddhism, he is a Dzogchen lineage holder and the founder of the Dzogchen Foundation. A poet, translator, storyteller, activist, and full-time spiritual