Samanera Bodhesako

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Sāmanera Bodhesako
Ñāṇavīra Thera
Websitewww.nanavira.org www.pathpress.org

Wat Bovornives. In 1982 he returned to Sri Lanka, living mostly in the upcountry region of Bandarawela. In 1988, while on a return journey to the United States to join his father for the latter's eightieth birthday celebration, Ven. Bodhesako died from a sudden intestinal hernia while in Kathmandu
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During the last years of his life he founded the Path Press for which he edited Clearing the Path: Writings of Ñāṇavīra Thera (Colombo, 1987). For the BPS he edited The Tragic, the comic and the Personal: Selected Letters of Ñāṇavīra Thera (Wheel Publication series No. 339–41, 1987.) In 2008 BPS published Beginnings: Collected Essays by S. Bodhesako. This book contains all the known published and unpublished essays by S. Bodhesako: Beginnings, Change, The Buddha and Catch-22, The Myth of Sisyphus, Faith, and Being and Craving.

Work

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Writings

Translation

Published Work

  • Getting Off, A Portrait of an American Buddhist Monk, Path Press Publications, 2012,
  • Stringhoppers and Rabbitholes, Letters of a Wayfarer, Path Press Publications, 2013,
  • Change - An examination of impermanence in experience. Published in 1988 by Path Press, Colombo.
  • Beginnings: The Pali Suttas - Discussion of beginnings of Pali Canon. Published in 1987 in the Wheel Publication series No. 313–315 by the BPS.
  • The Buddha and Catch-22 Published in 1987 by the BPS in the Bodhi Leaves series as No. 110.

External links

  • [1] - Nanavira Thera Dhamma Page
  • [2] - Writings of Ven. Bodhesako at Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page