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Daniel Odier was born on 17 May, 1945 in Geneva, Switzerland, is an A swiss male novelist. Discover Daniel Odier's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation writer,actor
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 17 May, 1945
Birthday 17 May
Birthplace Geneva, Switzerland
Nationality Switzerland

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1945

Daniel Robert Odier (born 17 May 1945 in Geneva), is a Zen master, Chan master, writer, poet, screenwriter and essayist, specialist in Kashmir Shaivism.

Praised by Anaïs Nin as "an outstanding writer and a dazzling poet," he is also a spiritual teacher of Eastern religious traditions, especially Tantra.

Daniel Odier began studies at the school of Beaux Arts at Rome but later chose to focus on writing rather than painting.

He received his university degree in Paris and was employed by a leading Swiss newspaper as a music critic.

He has taught screenwriting at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.

1968

Fascinated by Chan (the Chinese origin of zen), Daniel Odier decided to study the proximity of Chan and Tantra, inspired by the work of the Chinese hermit Chien Ming Chen, whom he met in Kalimpong in 1968.

Also in 1968, Daniel Odier becomes a disciple of Kalu Rinpoche for seven years; he receives from his master the transmission of the Mahamudra.

1975

In 1975, he met in a himalayan hermitage a Kashmiri Shivaïte yogini called Lalitâ Devî, a decisive meeting which he recounts in his various works on Tantra.

He receives from Lalitâ Devî the transmission of Mahamudra and of the mystical teachings of the Pratyabhijñā and Spanda schools of the Kaula tradition.

He then specialized in Kashmiri Shaivism, which he taught in several countries (France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, United States ...).

1982

Odier's own screenwriting credits include the films Invitation au voyage (1982) and Celestial Clockwork (1995).

1995

In 1995, Daniel Odier founded the "Tantra/Chan centre" in Paris, which he dissolved in 2000 in order to encourage independent spiritual practice.

He has taught courses on Eastern spiritual traditions at the University of California.

1998

He was married to the violinist Nell Gotkovsky (died 1998).

Apart from his works on Tantra, Odier is best known for a series of six novels published under the pseudonym 'Delacorta.' The books center around Serge Gorodish, a classically trained pianist with depressive tendencies, and his underage protégée named Alba.

The two enjoy an intense romantic relationship (never actually consummated), and embark together upon various confidence schemes and other intrigues.

These often result in the death or discomfiture of less sympathetic characters, although Alba and Gorodish themselves appear to be motivated more by their own profit and amusement than by any moral considerations.

The series includes the novel Diva which was later used as the basis for a popular French film of the same name.

Odier has also used the Delacorta pseudonym for several unrelated books (mostly detective novels or thrillers) and as a screenwriter.

The Alba/Gorodish books have appeared in omnibus editions in French and have been published in numerous other languages.

Most of Odier's other fiction remains untranslated.

In addition to Diva, film adaptations of Odier's books include Light Years Away (from the novel, La voie sauvage) and a French television film based on the Delacorta novel Rock (Lola).

2004

In 2004, he received dharma transmission from Jing Hui, abbot of Bailin Monastery and dharma successor of Hsu Yun, using the name "Ming Qing".

Daniel Odier is most of all a teacher of Kashmir Shaivism; he relates in his book Tantric Quest his mystical initiation from a tantric dakini, Lalita Devi, in Kashmir.