Profile | Troy Harris

PROFILE | TROY HARRIS
troydeanharris@gmail.com

1953

Born, Los Angeles

1976

graduates in philosophy
moves to Japan

upasampada induction
Watazumi Dozo / Kashap

international sovereign
sangha oral tradition

lineage keepership
Gaya full moon December

1981—1983

Private research, India, Nepal

1983—1989

Five year private training and
research under Rene Laubies

Puri, Kerala, Paris and Venice

1984—1988

Five year training & research w/
Saint Rajguru Chod Hasbamrer

Yoga conservatoire Bangkok
Rishikesh, Wat Suan Mokkh

1986—1987

Private tantidhara preparation
under Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

Suan Mokkh, Chaiya, Thailand

1994

Upasampada (re-)confirmation
under supreme patriarch

Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara
Wat Bowonniwet Vihara, Bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand

Private ethnologic research in
South, Southeast & Far-East Asian

soteriological ascetic arts legacies

1996

Publishes preliminary ethnological
research, Hannover Germany

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

France, director, Dr. Thích Tịnh Hạnh
appointed rector, Institut Huyen Vi

2014—2015

Founder/director, Yoga-Bauddha
Research Center, Munich

Publishes:

Streams to Healthy Living Yoga:
freeing the source of the Bauddha

2018

Postdoctoral research
Shaiva-Yoga-Bauddha Hybridity

among the Old Khmer and Siamese,
Superior 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)

2022—2023

One-year wooded residence for
private practice and research

Das Buddhistische Haus
Berlin-Frohnau

2024—2025

Private forest lakeside research
residence, 60º N, Scandinavia