Alan Clements

Since leaving his life as a Buddhist monk in Burma, Alan Clements has lectured and taught hundreds of Dharma retreats in the United States, Canada and Australia. In the jungles of Burma, in 1991, Clements was the first activist to witness and document the genocide of the ethnic minorities by the military dictatorship. He wrote about his observations in his first book, Burma: The Next Killing Fields? He then lived in the former Yugoslavia for nearly a year during the war, where he consulted with staff members of non-governmental organizations and the United Nations on the "role of consciousness in regard to human rights, service, and activism." In 1995, Clements made a risky journey back to Burma, where he co-authored The Voice of Hope, the internationally acclaimed book of conversations with Aung San Suu Kye, 1991 Nobel Peace laureate and leader of her country's nonviolent struggle for freedom. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. His latest book, Instinct For Freedom, Finding Liberation Through Living, is his first book of spiritual material. In it Clements presents an approach to spiritual development he calls "liberation through living"--an approach that mirrors the narrative of Clement's extraordinary life.