Biography of Hazlitt
Hazlitt is an authorized Dharma Teacher of the Dzogchen Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He is also a singer songwriter penning Dharma-inspired music. He’s been on a Dharma teaching tour for the past 17 months traveling around North America presenting Buddha's teachings to public and private audiences.
Christened as Hazlitt Eiler Krog and born in the same week that His Holiness the Dalai Lama fled Tibet, Hazlitt has experienced a profound connection with the Dzogchen Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism without renouncing his Christian roots.
Hazlitt graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a Bachelor of Arts in Special Studies titled “Music, Video and Film Production.” Prior to becoming a Dharma teacher, he pursued a series of overlapping careers and avocations as a musician and songwriter, videographer and editor, multimedia producer, web producer, project manager, publisher, entrepreneur, investor, photographer, and author.
A major turning point for him came in 1991, when he attended the Kalachakra Initiation conferred by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Madison Square Garden's Paramount Theater.
In May, 2002 Hazlitt met the Tibetan meditation master and scholar who would become his root teacher, Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. Hazlitt has accumulated nearly a year and a half in over 21 residential retreats with Khenpo Choga plus as much time with him outside of retreat on pilgrimage in Asia and assisting him during Khen Rinpoche's numerous North American teaching tours.
Khenpo has requested and authorized Hazlitt to teach the foundation of Buddhadharma as much as possible, and granted him the title, Upasaka Bodhisattva Pema Bhadra Dorje, Dharma Teacher of The Buddha Path.
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