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Troy Harris

Troy Harris was born in Los Angeles in 1953. He graduated in Philosophy and moved to the Orient. He devoted his first 12 years abroad to itinerant studies in the Zen milieus of Japan and Korea, in the forests, grottos and isolated beaches of South and Southeast Asia. From early 1984 he began a five-year apprenticeship with Saint Guru Chod (1900-1988), founder and director of the Conservatoire. Troy moves extensively, writing and researching through Asia and Europe. He is presently based at his Jasmine Hermitage and Centre for Research, Singapore.

Bauddha priest (1978), yoga svāmin (1985), ascetic researcher, novelist, poet, historian and radical ethnographer, Troy is the author of numerous published and unpublished works including Malabar Jasmine (a novel), Calls from the Shade (collected poems), Grafting Plato's Shadow Play (a spray can version of metaleptic mimêsis), and The Savage Buddha: Notes on Gautama and the Kapalika-vrata.