Nyanaponika Thera
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Nyanaponika Thera or Nyanaponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901 – 19 October 1994) was an influential monk, scholar and author in the Theravada tradition. He was a co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi.[1]
Access to Insight states:
- Nyanaponika Thera (Siegmund Feniger) left his native Germany in 1936 for Sri Lanka, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk by Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera (1878-1957). In 1958 he helped to found the Buddhist Publication Society, of which he served as editor-in-chief until 1984, and as president until his retirement in 1988. He passed away peacefully at his residence, the Forest Hermitage in the Udawattakele Reserve outside of Kandy, on the last day of his 57th rains retreat. His many widely-acclaimed books include The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, The Vision of Dhamma, Abhidhamma Studies, and (with Bhikkhu Bodhi) Numerical Discourses of the Buddha.[2]
Selected publications
- Thera, Nyanaponkia (1998), Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time, Wisdom Publications, ISBN 978-0861711352[3]
- Thera, Nyanaponkia (1999), The Life of Sariputta compiled and translated from the Pali texts
- Thera, Nyanaponkia (2000), The Vision of Dhamma: Buddhist Writings of Nyanaponika Thera, Pariyatti, ISBN 978-1928706038
- Thera, Nyanaponkia; Bodhi, Bhikkhu (2000), Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0300165203
- Thera, Nyanaponkia (2001), The Power of Mindfulness (PDF)
- Thera, Nyanaponkia (2003), Great Disciples of the Buddha : Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy, Wisdom Publications, ISBN 978-0861713813
- Thera, Nyanaponkia (2014), The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, Weiser Books, ISBN 978-1578635580[4]
References
- ↑ In the Preface of the posthumously published Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya (1999, co-authored with Bhikkhu Bodhi, published by Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA), p. xv, Bodhi writes: "The original version of this anthology was compiled by my personal mentor, the eminent German scholar-monk Venerable Nyanaponika Thera...."
- ↑ Accesstoinsight.org short biography
- ↑ Shrader, Douglas W. (2000), Review: Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time by Venerable Nyanaponika Thera, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Philosophy East and West 50 (4), 637-640
- ↑ Scaligero, Massimo (1959), Review: Satipaṭṭhāna. The Heart of Buddhist Meditation by Nyanaponika Thera, East and West 10 (3), 230-231
Sources
- Access to Insight (2013). Nyanaponika Thera in "Contributing Authors and Translators: Biographical Notes", edited by Access to Insight. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 17 December 2013, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/index.html#nyanaponika
- Thera, Nyanaponika (1986), The Vision of Dharma, Rider and Company, ISBN 0877286698
External links
- Accesstoinsight.org short biography
- BPS's "About Us" page
- "For the Welfare of Many" (1994), obituary by Bhikkhu Bodhi, originally published as the BPS Newsletter cover essay no. 28 (3rd mailing, 1994).