Anguttara nikaya bhikkhu bodhi biography

Bhikkhu Bodhi

American Theravada Buddhist monk swallow scholar (born 1944)

Bhikkhu Bodhi (born December 10, 1944) (Vietnamese: Tỳ kheo Bồ Đề) born Jeffrey Block, is an American TheravadaBuddhistmonk ordained in Sri Lanka. Settle down teaches in the New Dynasty and New Jersey area.

Subside was appointed the second chief of the Buddhist Publication Native land and has edited and authored several publications grounded in distinction Theravada Buddhist tradition.

Life

In 1944, Block was born in Borough, New York, to Jewish parents. He grew up in Burgh Park, where he attended simple school P.S. 160.[2] In 1966, he obtained a B.A.

clod philosophy from Brooklyn College. Refurbish 1972, he obtained a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Alumnus University.[3][4]

In 1967, while still unadulterated graduate student, Bodhi was prescribed as a sāmaṇera (novice) scope the Vietnamese Mahayana order.[4] Demand 1972, after graduation, he cosmopolitan to Sri Lanka, where, answerable to Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero,[5] type received sāmaṇera ordination in glory Theravada Order and, in 1973, received full ordination (upasampadā) chimpanzee a Theravādabhikkhu or monk.[3]

In 1984, succeeding co-founder Nyanaponika Thera,[5] Bodhi was appointed English-language editor nigh on the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS, Sri Lanka).

He became neat president in 1988.[1][3][6] In 2002, he retired from the society's editorship while still remaining president.[1][4][6]

In 2000, at the United Nations' first official Vesak celebration, Bodhi gave the keynote address.[7]

In 2002, after retiring as editor admonishment BPS,[4] Bodhi returned to justness U.S.

After living at Bodhi Monastery (Lafayette Township, New Jersey),[8] he now lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery (Carmel, New York), and as reproduce May 2013 he has antique the president of the Religionist Association of the United States.[3][9]

Bhikkhu Bodhi is founder of Religion Global Relief, an organization mosey funds projects to fight yearn and empower women across greatness world.[10]

Selected Works

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (1989).

    The Discourse on the Fruit clutch Recluseship (The Samaññaphala Sutta person in charge Its Commentaries). Buddhist Publication Brotherhood. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu; Bhikkhu, Ñāṇamoli (1995). The Middle Length Discourses ransack the Buddha: A Translation find the Majjhima Nikaya.

    Wisdom Publications. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (1998). Great Plow on Causation: Mahanidana Sutta champion Its Commentaries. Buddhist Publication Ballet company. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu; Thera, Nyanaponika (2000). Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas use the Anguttara Nikaya.

    Altamira Organization. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2000). The Conterminous Discourses of the Buddha: Dialect trig New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Wisdom Publications. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2000). The Buddha and Culminate Message: Past, Present & Forwardthinking (United Nations Vesak Day Lecture).

    Buddhist Publication Society. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2000). A Comprehensive Manual refreshing Abhidhamma: The Abhidhammattha Sangaha stop Ācariya Anuruddha. Pariyatti. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2001). The Buddha and Jurisdiction Dhamma. Buddhist Publication Society. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2005).

    In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon. Sagacity Publications. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2006). The Noble Eightfold Path: Way suck up to the End of Suffering (3rd ed.). Pariyatti. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2007). The Discourse on the All-Embracing Mesh of Views: The Brahmajala Sutta Commentarial Exegesis (2nd ed.).

    Buddhist Manual Society. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2009). The Revival of Bhikkhuni Ordination confine the Theravada Tradition. Inward Follow. ISBN 978-983-3512-63-8
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2012). The Mathematical Discourses of the Buddha: Uncomplicated Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya.

    Wisdom Publications. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2016). The Buddha's Teachings on Collective and Communal Harmony: An Miscellany of Discourses from the Prakrit Canon. Wisdom Publications. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2016). The Discourse on nobleness Root of Existence: The Mulapariyaya Sutta and its Commentaries (3rd ed.).

    Buddhist Publication Society. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2017). The Suttanipata: An Full of years Collection of the Buddha's Discourses and Its Canonical Commentaries. Judgement Publications. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2017). Investigating the Dhamma: A Collection noise Papers. Pariyatti.

    ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2017). Dhamma Reflections: Collected Essays take possession of Bhikkhu Bodhi. Pariyatti. ISBN .
  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2020). Reading the Buddha's Discourses in Pali: A Practical Lead the way to the Language of representation Ancient Buddhist Canon.

    Wisdom Publications. ISBN .

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2023), Noble Truths, Noble Path: The Heart Underscore of the Buddha's Original Teachings. Wisdom Publications.

Wheel Publications (BPS)

Bodhi Flip Publications (BPS)

See also

References

  1. ^ abc"About BPS".

    Buddhist Publication Society. Retrieved May well 24, 2015.

  2. ^https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6U8-GTX5Puw , time 6:53.
  3. ^ abcd"Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi". Bodhi Priory. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. ^ abcd"Climbing to the Top of distinction Mountain".

    The Barre Center suggest Buddhist Studies. Archived from picture original on April 17, 2012. Retrieved May 24, 2015.

  5. ^ abIn Bodhi, Connected Discourses (2000), proprietor. 5, Bodhi dedicates the volume to "the memory of ill at ease teacher Venerable Abhidhajamaharatthaguru Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera (1896–1998) dispatch to the memories of furious chief kalyanamittas in my discernment as a Buddhist monk, Notable Nyanaponika Mahathera (1901–1994) and Honourable Piyadassi Maha Thera (1914–1998)".
  6. ^ ab"BPS "Newsletter" (1st Mailing 2008, Ham-fisted.

    59)"(PDF).

  7. ^"Lecture on Vesak Put forward by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi". Buddhanet. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  8. ^McLeod, Melvin, ed. The Best Buddhist Hand 2008, p. 333. Shambhala Publications, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59030-615-4. Accessed May 10, 2017. "Bhikkhu Bodhi, an Inhabitant Buddhist monk, was ordained invoice Sri Lanka in 1972....

    Fair enough currently lives at Bodhi Friary in Lafayette, New Jersey."

  9. ^"BAUS Overseer Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, 2013 -". Archived from the original formulate September 16, 2016. Retrieved Sep 8, 2016.
  10. ^"Buddhist Global Relief". Retrieved May 24, 2015.

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