Troy Harris
PROFILE | TROY HARRIS Senior Researcher and Poet Venerable Tantidhara troydeanharris@gmail.com 1953 Born, Los Angeles 1971–1972 The Anatomy of An Internal Compass Registers for the draft on turning 18 in late 1971; immediately initiates a challenge against the system as a Conscientious Objector (1-O status) in opposition to civilian slaughter in Vietnam; mounts his legal defense of conscience before the Pasadena Draft Board with written statements supported by testimonies of local religious leader Rev Watson and his father David Keith Harris, WWII veteran; secures a landmark victory for social dissent and personal conscience, well before Nixon's 1973 order to end the draft 1976 Graduates CalPoly Pomona in philosophy; immediately departs for Japan; gains direct, unspoken entry into an esoteric lineage of masters; the natural extension of a deeply examined life led entirely by internal compass. Upasampadā Intercontinental by grace of Guru Mahakashyap v...