Acarya Malcolm Smith

ĀCĀRYA MALCOLM SMITH

JOINS HOST DANIEL AITKEN FOR A SPECIAL EPISODE OF
WISDOM DHARMA CHATS
ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025, AT 7:00 PM EDT

Please join us for this episode of Wisdom Dharma Chats as host Daniel Aitken welcomes back Ācārya Malcolm Smith. Fresh from wrapping filming on his brand-new Wisdom Academy course, Malcolm will share behind-the-scenes perspectives and personal insights into the profound and transformative path of the great perfection. Together with Daniel, he’ll explore the challenges and blessings of presenting these teachings for a modern audience, and what it means to integrate the view of Dzogchen into everyday life. This conversation will also touch on Malcolm’s upcoming book, Yoga of the Natural State: The Dzogchen Aural Lineage.

Whether you’re a longtime student of Dzogchen or newly curious about its radical approach to awakening, this Dharma Chat offers a rare opportunity to connect with one of today’s most respected Western teachers and translators of the great perfection. We hope you’ll join us live—online or in-studio—for this illuminating conversation.

JOIN OUR LIVE IN-STUDIO AUDIENCE IN NEW YORK CITY

This is a ticket to be a live studio audience member during the filming of the Wisdom Dharma Chat episode with Ācārya Malcolm Smith on Thursday, August 21, 2025, at 132 Perry St., New York, NY 10014. 

Tickets for the in-studio audience are available for $20.00 to help make Wisdom Dharma Chats possible. Doors will open at 6:20 p.m. and will close promptly at 6:55 p.m. Please do not be late. The Wisdom Dharma Chat will start at 7:00 p.m. and will last until approximately 8:45 p.m., including a short intermission around 8:00 p.m.

Seats are limited, so please be sure to reserve a ticket for the in-studio audience if you plan on coming in person.

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Ācārya Malcolm Smith

Ācārya Malcolm Smith has been a student of the Great Perfection teachings since 1992. His main Dzogchen teachers are Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, the late Kunzang Dechen Lingpa, and the late H.H. Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche. He is a veteran of a traditional three-year solitary Tibetan Buddhist retreat, a published translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts, and was awarded the Āchārya degree by the Sakya Institute in 2004. He graduated in 2009 from Shang Shung Institute’s School of Tibetan Medicine. He has worked on translations for renowned lamas since 1992, including His Holiness Sakya Trizin, Kunzang Dechen Lingpa,  Khenpo Migmar Tseten, Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche, and many others. His works include Buddhahood in This Life, his forthcoming volume, Yoga of the Natural State: The Dzogchen Aural Lineage, and his translation work on The Seventeen Dzogchen Tantras, including (The Self-Arisen Vidya Tantra (vol 1) and The Self-Liberated Vidya Tantra (vol 2), and The Tantra without Syllables (vol 3) and The Blazing Lamp Tantra (vol 4). Additionally, he is the instructor of the Wisdom Academy online course Dzogchen: Ten Key Terms.

Daniel Aitken

Daniel is the CEO and Publisher of Wisdom Publications, as well as the host of the popular Wisdom Podcast and Wisdom Dharma Chats. In addition to publishing some of the most important books and online courses on Buddhism, he has interviewed over 200 Buddhist masters from a variety of Buddhist traditions. Daniel has a PhD in Buddhist Philosophy. His lifelong interest in Tibetan Buddhism, the Tibetan language, and its literature has taken him across Australia, America, India, Nepal, and Tibet to pursue a deeper understanding of Buddhist theory and practice with some of the greatest masters from the living tradition.