Nyanaponika Thera

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Nyanaponika Maha Thera

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Birth name:  Siegmund Feniger
Born: July 21, 1901(1901-07-21)
Place of birth: Hanau, Germany
Died: October 19, 1994 (aged 93)
Place of death: Kandy, Sri Lanka
Religion: Theravada
Title(s): Mahathera (Great Elder)
Workplace: Forest Hermitage
Occupation: monk; co-founder, Buddhist Publication Society
Successor(s): Bhikkhu Bodhi (at BPS)
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Nyanaponika Thera or Nyaniponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901, Hanau19 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]

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[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)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ 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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