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Nyanaponika Thera or Nyaniponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901, Hanau – 19 October 1994, Forest Hermitage, Kandy, Ceylon) was a German-born Sri-Lanka-ordained Theravada monk, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society[1], contemporary author of numerous seminal Theravada books, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi.[1]
[edit] Chronology
- 1901: born Siegmund Feniger in Germany.
- 1936: moved to Sri Lanka, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk by Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera (1878-1957).
- 1958: helped to found the Buddhist Publication Society:
- served as editor-in-chief until 1984,
- served as president until 1988.
- 1994: died at the Forest Hermitage outside of Kandy, Sri Lanka.
[edit] Publications (partial list)
- Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time (1998)
- Great Disciples of the Buddha : Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (2003)
- The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1973)
- Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (2000), with Bhikkhu Bodhi
- The Vision of Dhamma (2000)
- ^ 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...."
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