Alan Clements was the first American to pioneer the Dharma from the remote
South East Asian Buddhist country of Burma, where he lived in a Buddhist
monastery during the 1970's and 80's, five years he spent as a monk. During
this time he trained in classical Buddhist psychology and vipassana
meditation with two of the most respected meditation masters of our era, the
late Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw, and his successor Sayadaw U Pandita. He has
authored / co-authored three books, Burma : The Next Killing Fields ?, The
Voice of Hope (with Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace laureate), and Burma's
Revolution of the Spirit. He has recently completed a fourth book entitled "Instinct for Freedom". A powerful and eloquent speaker, Alan conducts
trainings and retreats worldwide.