About the author
Dharmacharya Gurudas Sunyatananda is a non-sectarian contemplative monk and dharma teacher, ordained in the Buddhist and Eastern Catholic traditions, and best known for his pioneering efforts to bring the dharma of Buddha and Christ to a postmodern audience, in a contemporary, non-theistic and non-religious context, as he believes both Buddha Sakyamuni and the Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef (Jesus the Nazarene).
Author of more than six hundred articles, and several books, including such classics as The Dharma of Compassion – One Monk’s Reflections on the Teachings of the Enlightened & Anointed Ones, and Songs of the Night Skies, he is respected as an authority on interreligious and interspiritual dialogue, social justice, peace and contemporary Buddhism.
Today, Dharmacharya Gurudas Sunyatananda (known simply to his students as Khenpo — an honourific title given to the spiritual leader of a monastery or contemplative community, because he refuses the title of “lama” or “guru”, responding that he is simply the “servant of the guru” — gurudas in Sanskrit) serves as the spiritual director of the Contemplative Monks of the Eightfold Path, and as the director of the Spiritus Project — a worldwide grassroots, intentional spiritual community of men and women seeking ways to live the Dharma more authentically.