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 Doso]
December full moon Gaya
lineage keepership
1981—1983
Independent research India & Nepal
1983—1989
Five year private training & research
under Rene Laubies, Puri, Kerala,
Paris & Venice
1984—1988
Five year training & research w/
Saint Rajguru Chot Hasbamrer
Yoga Conservatoire, Bangkok,
Rishikesh & 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 Vihan, Bangkok
Begins private ethnological research
in South, Southeast & 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
2005—2008
Founder Jasmine Hermitage
Singapore, publishes two works
The Savage Buddha
(Gautama & the Kapalika vrata)
Grafting Plato's Shadow Play
(a spray can version of metaleptic
mimesis), Ashé Journal of
Experimental Spirituality, 2006
2010
Doctorate, ascetic arts curation
Institut Huyen Vi, Vitry-sur-Seine,
director Ven. Dr. Thích Tịnh Hạnh
Appointed rector, Paris
2014—2015
Founder-director Yoga-Bauddha
Research Center, Munich
Publishes
Streams to Healthy Living Yoga:
Freeing the Ancient 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
& the Living Presence 28th - 30th
March, in cooperation with the
Indira Gandhi National Centre
for the Arts, New Delhi, India
2022—2023
Private wooded practice & research
residency, Berlin-Frohnau
2024—2025
Private lakeside forest practice
& research residency, Sweden