"Consciousness" in Buddhism (Ajahn Brahm)

Ajahn Brahm, BSV, June 8, 2015; Sayalay Aloka, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ajahn Brahm: Buddhist idea of consciousness

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Western monks and nuns now teach Dharma.

Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (lovingly known to most as Ajahn Brahm) was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom, on August 7, 1951.

He came from a working-class background but won a scholarship to study theoretical physics at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. After graduating from Cambridge, he taught in high school for a year before travelling to Thailand to become a Theravada Buddhist monk and train with Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana Mahathera ["great elder," a monk of many annual Rains Retreats].

• Ajahn Brahm | Buddhist Society of Western Australia (bswa.org)

Awakened Ajahn Brahm is a happy monk.

While still in his years as a junior monk in training, he was asked to undertake the compilation of an English-language guide to the Buddhist Monastic Code -- the Vinaya -- which later became the basis for monastic discipline in many Theravada Buddhist monasteries in Western countries.

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Its spiritual advisor is Ajahn Brahm, the abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery located in Western Australia. For more information, see: bsv.net.au.

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