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About Alan Clements
In 1979, Alan Clements, as the first American to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Burma, lived and meditated quietly in a monastery for the next eight years with no political involvement whatsoever. Subsequently he returned to the West to teach meditation. However, as Burma descended into political chaos and tyranny,with rampant torture, mass killings, and other abuses of human rights, Alan became one of the most active and effective of all Westerners. Since he spoke Burmese, he was able to undertake four underground perilous trips into Burma where he lived in the jungle with refugees, listened to firsthand accounts of mass slaughter,torture and rape, and saw maimed victims of torture and war.
In the jungles of Burma, in 1990, he was the first journalist-activist to witness and document the genocide of the ethnic minorities by the military dictatorship, which he wrote about in his first book, Burma: The Next Killing Fields? (Odonian Press, Tucson, AZ, 1991) with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Clements is also co-author of “Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit,” (Aperture, NY 1995) also with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, and endorsed by eight Nobel laureates. Alan Clements also co-authored the book “The Voice of Hope—Conversations with Aung San Suu Kyi,” published by Seven Stories Press in 1997.
His collaboration with Aung San Suu Kyi with whom he spent seven months together in 1995 and 96 deepened his appreciation for just what price the commitment to freedom could exact from those involved as freedom fighters, in their cases imprisonment, torture, and even murder. This led to his next book “Instinct for Freedom: A Guide to Spiritual Revolution,” which explains the philosophical underpinnings of Burma’s nonviolent revolution.
Alan has appeared on numerous radio and television shows worldwide offering detailed commentary of the crisis in Burma, especially as an expert on the role of Buddhism in Burmese politics and as an ingredient in their nonviolent activism. Alan has been interviewed on ABC “Nightline”, CBS “Evening News”, “Talk to America”, VOA, BBC, and by The New York Times, The London Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, Yoga Journal, Utne, and scores of other media worldwide. Translated into 13 languages, The Voice of Hope, Alan Clements’ international acclaimed book of conversations with Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s imprisoned Nobel peace laureate, offers penetrating insight into the psychology of totalitarianism and nonviolent revolution. Said the London Observer: “Clements is the perfect interlocutor….whatever the future of Burma, a possible future for politics itself is illuminated by these conversations.”
Alan Clements is available for radio, tv and print media inquires worldwide.
He can be contacted
Directly via email at: alan@worlddharma.com
Or by phone at: 604.251.1781
