Gede Prama in Brief

Gede Prama, a renowned spiritual philosopher, public speaker, author and management consultant. After completing his post-graduate MBA and MA studies in Europe, Gede Prama began his management career with large international companies, including National Panasonic. At age 38, he became the CEO of one of the biggest natural medicine companies in the country, Air Mancur.

After years contributing to the corporate world, Gede Prama left to pursue his lifelong journey on the spiritual path. He learned directly from His Holiness Dalai Lama, met personally with Thich Nhat Hanh and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, as well as other spiritual masters from around the world.

His devoted studies resulted in the writing of several books in Indonesian and English. Among the most recently published areSetenang Pepohonan Selembut Rerumputan: Menyembuhkan Diri Dari Dalam; Pencerahan Dalam Perjalanan: Menyirami Bibit-bibit Kesembuhan, Keteduhan, Kedamaian; and Simfoni di Dalam Diri: Mengolah Kemarahan Menjadi Keteduhan, in Indonesian, and Sadness, Happiness, Blissfulness: Transforming Suffering into the Ultimate Healing and his incoming e-book, The Inner Symphony: Turning Anger into Flower, in English.

He is also a prominent management advisor to many multi-national companies, such as Citibank, Unilever, Worldbank, Microsft, IBM in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Melbourne.

Today, Gede Prama is recognized as one of the most influential public speakers and meditation teachers in Indonesia and Asia Pacific. Well-known for his spiritual teachings in meditation, his approach is simple: to meditate is to take rest. Drawing upon his origins in Tantra, he believes all beings are Buddha and that the art of life is simply to take rest.

Following his Guru’s (HH Dalai Lama) teachings: “If you want to be happy, practice compassion, if you want others to be happy practice compassion”.
For that reason, Gede Prama condenses his teaching into one sentence: The Voices of Compassion