Samanera Bodhesako

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name = Sāmanera Bodhesako


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birth_name = Robert Smith
other_names = Vinayadhara, Ñāṇasuci
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birth_date = 1939
birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, USA
death_date = 1988
death_place = Kathmandu, Nepal
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teacher = Ñāṇavīra Thera
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website = [http://www.nanavira.org www.nanavira.org]

Sāmanera Bodhesako (Robert Smith, known also as "Ven. Vinayadhara" and "Ven. Ñāṇasuci" in his early monastic life) was an American Buddhist monk. Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939, he studied at the University of Iowa, specializing in Literature and Creative Writing. He embraced Buddhism in 1966 in India, where he was ordained at the Bengal Buddhist Association of Calcutta, and spent several years as a monk in Sri Lanka. (His autobiography of his early monastic life can be found in the book called [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9280/go1-1.htm "Getting Off: A Portrait"] .) After leaving the robe in 1971, in 1980 he again took ordination, this time in Thailand under the Venerable Somdet Ñāṇasamvara (Supreme Patriarch of Thailand) of 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.

Work

Editor
* [http://nanavira.110mb.com/ctp_intro.htm Clearing the Path] - The Writings of Ñāṇavīra Thera

Writings
* [http://nanavira.110mb.com/chang-pr.htm Change] - An examination of impermanence in experience
* [http://nanavira.110mb.com/begin1.htm Beginnings: The Pali Suttas] - Discussion of beginnings of Pali Canon
* [http://nanavira.110mb.com/faith1.htm Faith: A Meditation and a Homily]
* [http://nanavira.110mb.com/catch22.htm The Buddha and Catch-22]
* [http://nanavira.110mb.com/sisyph1.htm The Myth of Sisyphus: A Cycle]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9280/go-a1.htm Being and Craving]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9280/go1-1.htm Getting Off: A Portrait] - Autobiography
* [http://bodhesako.blogspot.com Stringhoppers and Rabits] - Collected letters

Translation
* [http://en.suttas.net/suttas/khuddaka-nikaya/dhammapada/index.php Dhammapada in English Verse]

External links

* [http://nanavira.110mb.com/other.htm www.nanavira.110mb.com/other.htm] - Writings of Ven. Bodhesako at Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page