Samanera Bodhesako
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| Sāmanera Bodhesako | |
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| Information | |
| Birth name: | Robert Smith |
| Other name(s): | Vinayadhara, Ñāṇasuci |
| Born: | 1939 |
| Place of birth: | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Died: | 1988 |
| Place of death: | Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Religion: | Theravada |
| Teacher(s): | Ñāṇavīra Thera |
| Website | |
| Website: | www.nanavira.org |
Sāmanera Bodhesako (Robert Smith, known also as Ven. Vinayadhara and Ven. Ñāṇasuci in his early monastic life) was an American Buddhist monk. Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939, he studied at the University of Iowa, specializing in Literature and Creative Writing. He embraced Buddhism in 1966 in India, where he was ordained at the Bengal Buddhist Association of Calcutta, and spent several years as a monk in Sri Lanka. (His autobiography of his early monastic life can be found in the book called Getting Off: A Portrait.) After leaving the robe in 1971, in 1980 he again took ordination, this time in Thailand under the Venerable Somdet Ñāṇasamvara (Supreme Patriarch of Thailand) of Wat Bovornives. In 1982 he returned to Sri Lanka, living mostly in the upcountry region of Bandarawela. In 1988, while on a return journey to the United States to join his father for the latter's eightieth birthday celebration, Ven. Bodhesako died from a sudden intestinal hernia while in Kathmandu.
[edit] Work
Editor
- Clearing the Path - The Writings of Ñāṇavīra Thera
Writings
- Change - An examination of impermanence in experience
- Beginnings: The Pali Suttas - Discussion of beginnings of Pali Canon
- Faith: A Meditation and a Homily
- The Buddha and Catch-22
- The Myth of Sisyphus: A Cycle
- Being and Craving
- Getting Off: A Portrait - Autobiography
- Stringhoppers and Rabits - Collected letters
Translation
[edit] External links
- www.nanavira.110mb.com/other.htm - Writings of Ven. Bodhesako at Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page
