About the Author Lama Surya Das is one of the foremost Western Buddhist meditation teachers and scholars. He teaches and lectures around the world, conducting dozens of meditation retreats and workshops each year. Based on his relationship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Surya Das founded the Western Buddhist Teachers Network and has organized three weeklong conferences of Western Buddhist Meditation Teachers with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. He also teaches regularly at Esalen, Open Center, Omega Institute, Interface, at universities in the United States and abroad, and at spiritual centers of all kinds. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Foundation.
"One moment of total awareness is one moment of perfect freedom and enlightenment." This is the ultimate teaching of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned as Dzogchen, "the Great Perfection," the subject of Lama Surya Das’ newest book, Natural Radiance. In this Book/CD, he teaches for the first time a complete daily Dzogchen practice in the oral tradition as it was originally transmitted, including guided meditations and chants.
