Dana Sawyer

Dana Sawyer is professor of religion at the Maine College of Art and author of several books, including biographies of Aldous Huxley and Huston Smith. He is an expert on Advaita Vedanta and the Shankaracarya orders of Hindu monks, having lived in several of their monasteries in India. Dana has expertise in the fields of Sanskrit, Hinduism, Buddhism, and mantra meditation practices.

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