Behram was born in 1955, in Mumbai, India. 

For the first ten years of his life, he lived in North India, close to the foothills of the Himalayas, where his father was working as a senior architect for the Indian Government.  Thereafter, his father was transferred to Lagos, Nigeria, so he moved and stayed with his family there for the next twelve years. 

It was in Lagos at the age of thirteen that he developed a keen interest in knowing more about himself.  This led him to read many books on psychology, philosophy and spirituality, and it is this interest, which has brought him to where he is today.

In 1978, he left Lagos and went for further studies to the United States of America where he stayed for five years.

During his very first year there, in the lap of materialism, Behram felt a powerful spiritual calling, but he completed his studies and graduated with a Masters Degree in Graphic Design from the California Institute Of The Arts, Los Angeles.  Immediately after his graduation in 1983, he returned to India, in search of Teachers and teachings to follow his spiritual quest and illuminate his life’s purpose.

His thirst for spiritual truths, led him to many wise and compassionate teachers not only in India, but also in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Japan, where he underwent intensive training in various monasteries. 

During his time in India, he spent several years in solitary retreats in isolated settings, living in small huts and even caves, in the Himalayas.  After much arduous practice, it was during one of these solitary retreats in the magnificent Himalayan landscape that he experienced his deepest insight in May, 1988.  Soon thereafter, he left the mountains and went to serve one of his teachers, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, as a House Manager at Lama Zopa’s city centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.  

Lama Zopa Rinpoche is the Spiritual Director of The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), which has over 135 centers in 31 countries around the world.

A year later, in May 1989, Lama Zopa authorized Behram to teach the Dharma.  Since then, he has dedicated his life to introducing people to the Buddhist way of living, because of his passion to share with others the richness it has created in his own life.

Behram has taught in Europe for several years, but at present he conducts talks, workshops and retreats only in India and Australia, and with over 20 years of experience behind him, he continues to make a profound difference in many people’s lives.