Profile | Troy Harris
PROFILE | TROY HARRIS
ven.sritantra
sritantra@gmail.com
1953
Born, Los Angeles
1976
Graduates BA philosophy
moves to Japan.
Upasampada | Kashap [+Watazumi]
December full moon Gaya
lineage keepership
1981—1983
Independent research India and Nepal
1983—1989
Five year private training and research
under Rene Laubies, Puri, Kerala,
Paris and Venice
1984—1988
Five year training and research with
Saint Rajguru Chot Hasbamrer
Yoga Conservatoire, Bangkok,
Rishikesh and Wat Suan Mokkh
1986—1987
Tantidharaka preparation under
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, Suan Mokkh
1994
Upasampada-reconfirmation rites
31st January – 1st February 1994
Her Majesty Queen Sirikit's presence
on Jan 31 bespeaks royal patronage
conducted by Supreme Patriarch
Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara
Wat Bowonniwet Vihara, Bangkok.
Begins private ethnological research
in South, Southeast and Far East
Asian soteriological ascetic arts
legacies
1997
Publishes preliminary research,
Buddhismus und Yoga (trans. by
Anneli Sartiono), Der Mittlere Weg,
Buddhistischer Bund Hannover, e.V.
1999
Lecturer, University of the West,
Rosemead California
2006
Founds Jasmine Hermitage for
ascetic arts research, Singapore.
Publishes two works:
The Savage Buddha
(Gautama and the Kapalika vrata)
Grafting Plato's Shadow Play
(a spray can version of metaleptic
mimesis), Ashé Journal of
Experimental Spirituality
2010
Doctorate, ascetic arts curation,
Institut Huyen Vi, Vitry-sur-Seine
director, Ven. Dr. Thích Tịnh Hạnh.
Appointed rector, Institut Huyen Vi,
Paris
2014—2015
Founder-director Yoga-Bauddha
Research Center, Munich
Publishes:
Streams to Healthy Living Yoga,
freeing the source of the Bauddha
2018
Publishes postdoctoral research,
Shaiva-Yoga-Bauddha Hybridity
among the Old Khmer & Siamese,
Superv. Prof. Sachchidanand Sahai,
Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Leads dawn meditation at Angkor
Wat as a rite of reflection on the
Khmer temple's cosmic aspects
for the International Conference
on Angkor Wat: The Monument
and the Living Presence 28th -
30th March, in cooperation with
Indira Gandhi National Centre for
the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India
2022—2023
Private wooded practice and research
residency, Berlin-Frohnau
2024—2025
Private lakeside forest practice and
research residency, Sweden