Bradley Clemmons

Bradley Clemmons has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1972. He has worked for Dharma Publishing, a non-profit Buddhist publisher, since 1974. Due to the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, a large percentage of the Tibetan sacred texts have been destroyed, making it difficult for the monasteries to continue the teachings. In escaping from Tibet to India, many Tibetans endangered their lives to bring sacred texts with them on their trek across the Himalayas. The Yeshe De Project was established in 1988 as a joint venture between Dharma Publishing and the Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center to reprint these rare texts in Tibetan and return them to the monasteries so that the teachings could continue. Hundreds of thousands of texts are distributed yearly to monks, nuns and lay practitioners from every part of Asia at the Monlam Chen-mo Peace Ceremonies in Bodh Gaya, India. Mr. Clemmons has worked on this project from the beginning and was able to participate in one of these ceremonies himself during a pilgrimage to India and Nepal in 1991.

The Mountain Dragon journey began in 2001. The dreams and the subsequent vision that emanated from the enlightened intention of Arya Tara were presented with such intensity that this story, a myth of enlightened feminine energy, had to be made known. It has taken nine years to bring this vision to the point of publication. The two Mountain Dragon books are the first part of the vision. The story of Pale Lotus and Pal-den, who we meet at the end of the second book, has yet to be written and published. But it flows like a river from the end of that book into it own telling like our mind-streams flow from one life to the next and beyond.

Mr. Clemmons shares a loving partnership with Jane, his wife of nearly 30 years. He is also caretaker for many of the animals at the Tibetan Buddhist community where he lives. Swans, ducks, peacocks, exotic pheasants, cranes, doves and Great Pyrenees guardian dogs are among the animals under his care.