Stillness

kaladanda Yoga + Dharma Series, The perfection of Stillness with Lama Marut.

Lama Marut is the founder and spiritual director of the Asian Classics Institute, Los Angeles (www.aci-la.org), and of the Asian Classics Institute, Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

Ven. Marut is also a founding Board member and staff instructor for the Yoga Studies Institute (www.yogastudiesinstitute.org). As a YSI staff teacher, he teaches courses in yoga philosophy around the world. He is also on the faculty of Diamond Mountain University in Arizona (www.diamondmtn.org) as a professor of Sanskrit and Buddhism.

Ven. Marut is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 1984, where he studied with Mircea Eliade, Wendy Doniger OFlaherty, and other world-renown scholars of Indian and Comparative Religions. He taught courses in Indian, Eastern, and Comparative Religion for over twenty years — first at Barnard College, Columbia University, and then as a tenured Professor at the University of California, Riverside before retiring in 2004. He has spent several years in India studying and is the author of two books based on ancient Sanskrit materials (published with Oxford University Press), many articles (academic, as well as popular pieces for encyclopedias), and is the co-translator of a Sanskrit law book, THE LAWS OF MANU (published by Penguin).

Since 1998, Ven. Marut has been a student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of his spiritual teacher, Geshe Michael Roach. On Feb. 18, 2005, he became an ordained monk in the Gelukpa lineage.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Buddhism
• Yoga
• Meditation

[AngelsRamin]

@saraneha29 then u need to rest or maybe exercise a bit!

[saraneha29]

i tried and many time to meditate i fall a sleep