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Nyanaponika Maha Thera
TitleMahathera (Great Elder)
Personal
Born
Siegmund Feniger

(1901-07-21)July 21, 1901
Hanau, German Empire
DiedOctober 19, 1994(1994-10-19) (aged 93)
Forest Hermitage, Kandy, Sri Lanka
ReligionTheravada Buddhism
Occupationmonk; co-founder, Buddhist Publication Society
Senior posting
Based inForest Hermitage
PredecessorU Nārada
SuccessorBhikkhu Bodhi (at BPS)

Nyanaponika Thera or Nyanaponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901 – 19 October 1994)[1] was a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar who, after ordaining in Sri Lanka, later became the co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society and author of numerous seminal books and articles on Theravada Buddhism. He mentored and taught a whole generation of Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi.[2]

  1. ^ Buswell & Lopez 2013.
  2. ^ Bodhi 1999, p. xv, "Preface": "The original version of this anthology was compiled by my personal mentor, the eminent German scholar-monk Venerable Nyanaponika Thera".

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