American Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar (born 1944)
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Title
President of the Buddhist Association of the United States
Personal
Born
Jeffrey Block
(1944-12-10) December 10, 1944 (age 79)
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Religion
Buddhism
School
Theravada
Education
Brooklyn College Claremont Graduate University
Occupation
scholar-monk; president, Buddhist Publication Society
Senior posting
Teacher
Ven. Ananda Maitreya
Based in
Chuang Yen Monastery Buddhist Publication Society Sangha Council of Bodhi Monastery Yin Shun Foundation
Predecessor
Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (BPS editor and president)
Successor
Mr. Kariyavasam (BPS editor),[1] P.D. Premasiri (BPS president) Buddhist Publication Society
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Bhikkhu Bodhi (born December 10, 1944), born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in Sri Lanka. He teaches in the New York and New Jersey area. He was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.
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BhikkhuBodhi (born December 10, 1944), born Jeffrey Block, is an American Theravada Buddhist monk ordained in Sri Lanka. He teaches in the New York and...
his ordination acariya. BhikkhuBodhi has been Bhikkhu Anālayo's main mentor in the study of the Pāli discourses. The late Bhikkhu Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda...
enlightenment. According to BhikkhuBodhi, the Pāli Canon portrays the Buddha declaring himself to be an arahant. According to BhikkhuBodhi, nirvāṇa is "the ultimate...
mentored and taught a whole generation of Western Buddhist leaders such as BhikkhuBodhi. Nyanaponika Thera was born in Hanau, Germany on July 21, 1901, as Siegmund...
Thanissaro Bhikkhu Gethin, The Buddhist Path to Awakening; Keren Arbel, Early Buddhist Meditation Analayo (2011), p. 13-14. BhikkhuBodhi. "The Noble...
various Buddhist terms, most notably bodhi and vimutti. The abstract noun bodhi (/ˈboʊdi/; Sanskrit: बोधि; Pali: bodhi) means the knowledge or wisdom, or...
translation by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and BhikkhuBodhi of the Majjhima Nikaya was published by Wisdom Publications in 1995. Translations by BhikkhuBodhi of the Samyutta...
as well as the field of knowledge that this method is said to study. BhikkhuBodhi calls it "an abstract and highly technical systemization of the [Buddhist]...
April 2015 Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2005), In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, Simon and Schuster Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2005a), The...
S2CID 142533789. Bodhi 2000b, p. 1122. Bodhi 2000b, pp. 1125–127. Maha-punnama Sutta: The Great Full-moon Night Discourse, Thanissaro Bhikkhu (2001) Bodhi 2000b...
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