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Cambridge Dzogchen Sangha
Cambridge MA
tibetyt@yahoo.

The Dzogchen Center is a community of Buddhists, led by spiritual director Lama Surya Das,
who are dedicated to a wiser, more peaceful and beautiful world for one and all.

Together we meditate, chant, pray, practice self-inquiry and yoga.
We strive mindfully to enact a wise and loving way of being and doing,
serene within yet actively engaged in this turbulent world.
This is the altruistic Bodhisattva way of wisdom and compassion.

Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars, one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, and a leading spokesperson for the emerging American Buddhism. The Dalai Lama affectionately calls him “The Western Lama.”

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 own teachers, and has twice completed the traditional three-year meditation cloistered retreat at his teacher’s Tibetan monastery. 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. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Over the years, Surya has brought many Tibetan lamas to this country to teach and start centers and retreats. As founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama, he regularly helps organize its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences. He is also active in interfaith dialogue and charitable projects in low-income countries. 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.”Welcome to the Dzogchen Center Cambridge

Through our root teacher, <A href="http://www.cambridgedzogchen.org/whoweare.html#surya">Lama Surya
Das,</A> his associate teacher, <A href="http://www.cambridgedzogchen.org/whoweare.html#john">Lama John
Makransky,</A> and other authorized teachers, the Center provides the
essential teachings and transmissions of the Dzogchen lineage of
Tibetan Buddhism in forms appropriate for Western culture.

The Center provides:

<A href="http://www.cambridgedzogchen.org/practice.html">Monday evening sittings,</a> many
taught by Lamas

Lama-led teaching of core Mahayana mind-training practices: <A href="http://www.cambridgedzogchen.org/practice.html">tonglen and lojong</a> (heart-mind
training), and Lama-led teaching of Vajrayana (foundational) practice
of <a href="http://www.cambridgedzogchen.org/practice.html">Ng√∂ndro</a>

Day-long and other special teaching events

Opportunities for personal interviews with Lama John Makransky and
Lama Surya Das

Participation in, and scholarships for, <a href="http://www.dzogchen.org/retreats/">Dzogchen Center</a> intensive
retreats

Books, tapes, and other teachings and materials

Participation in Boston-area Buddhist organizations

Support (<I>dana</I>) for the work of our Lamas

A spirit of compassion and support for practitioners and all
beings

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