Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Podcast, Oct. 5, 2015; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (DBM), Wisdom Quarterly
Ven. Bodhi tells his own story, painting a picture of what it was like in the days when Buddhism first came to the USA and the West, how he encountered Buddhism, and what living in Sri Lanka in the 1970s with the renowned German Jewish Theravada monks was like.
He gives some translation advice to aspiring translators and discusses his translation of the Buddha’s teaching in the Sutta Nipata.
Finally, he talks about his recent humanitarian efforts in Asia with Buddhist Global Relief.
Who is this American Buddhist monk?
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| American Theravada scholar-monk |
After completing his university studies, he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full monastic ordination in 1973, both under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998).
From 1984 to 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German monk, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (1901-1994), at the Forest Hermitage in Kandy.
He returned to the USA in 2002 and came to Bodhi Monastery in NJ. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery (BAUS.org) in Carmel, Upstate New York.
Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include:
- Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya, 1995)
- The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya, 2000)
- The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya, 2012).
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