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+ | ====== Contributing Authors and Translators: | ||
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+ | Summary: | ||
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+ | Biographical Notes | ||
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+ | See also Indexes | ||
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+ | These biographical notes were adapted from the sources that follow each entry. | ||
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+ | <span zze>This is a work in progress. We welcome your help in filling any of the gaping biographical holes. If you have any information to provide, please [[: | ||
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+ | <span hide #jtb> sabbatical 20120823 This is a work in progress. I welcome your help in filling any of the gaping biographical holes. If you have any information to provide, please [[: | ||
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+ | <span hlist> [[#a|A]] | [[#b|B]] | [[#c|C]] | [[#d|D]] | [[#ef|EF]] | [[#g|G]] | [[#h|H]] | [[#i|I]] | [[#j|J]] | [[#k|K]] | [[#l|L]] | [[#m|M]] | [[#n|N]] | [[#o|O]] | [[#pq|PQ]] | [[#r|R]] | [[#s|S]] | [[#t|T]] | [[#u|U]] | [[#v|V]] | [[#w|W]] | [[# | ||
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+ | ====== A ====== | ||
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+ | ====== B ====== | ||
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+ | :: Roger Bischoff was born in 1955 in Lausanne, Switzerland. His interest in Buddhism started very early and by 18 he had accumulated a collection of antiquarian books on Buddhism. | ||
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+ | :: [[http:// | ||
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+ | :: Phra Bodhinandamuni (Phra Khru Nandapaññabharana) is a Thai Buddhist monk. | ||
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+ | :: Robert Bogoda was born in 1918 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. His secondary education was cut short by the sudden demise of his father, which compelled him to work at a modest job as a teacher. While engaged in teaching, he obtained by self study the B.Sc. (Econ.) and M.Sc. (Econ.) degrees from the University of London, specializing in Social Administration. <span small> | ||
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+ | :: (See his entry on the [[: | ||
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+ | :: Leonard A. Bullen was one of the pioneers of the Buddhist movement in Australia. He was the first president of the Buddhist Society of Victoria when it was established in 1953 and one of the first office-bearers of the executive committee of the Buddhist Federation of Australia. He was also a co-editor of the Buddhist journal //Metta.// <span small> | ||
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+ | :: Douglas Burns was an American psychiatrist who intensely studied and practiced Buddhism in Thailand. | ||
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+ | ====== C ====== | ||
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+ | :: (See his entry on the [[: | ||
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+ | DeGraff, Geoffrey | ||
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+ | :: Lily de Silva was educated at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, where she received a B.A. with First Class Honors in Pali and the Woodward Prize for Pali and, in 1967, a Ph.D. She taught at the University for many years and served as Chair of the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies until her retirement in 1994. Dr. de Silva was the editor of the Digha Nikaya Atthakatha Tika (Subcommentary to the Digha Nikaya), published by the [[: | ||
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+ | :: Prof. Padmasiri de Silva was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and has held visiting positions at a number of universities, | ||
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+ | :: Lorna Dewaraja, M.A. (Ceylon), Ph.D. (London), formerly Associate Professor of History, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is currently the Director of the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka. <span small> | ||
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+ | :: Born Norman Joseph Smith. First ordained in 1986 as a bhikkhu at Wat Thai Nakorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Disrobed in 1993. Completed a BA degree in 2004 at the University of Queensland, majoring in Chinese and Studies in Religion, focusing on Buddhism, including Pali, Buddhist Chinese and Sanskrit language studies, Linguistics and Psychology of Religion. Ordained as a bhikkhu in 2008. Currently resides in Thailand. <span small> | ||
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+ | :: The Dhammayut Order in the USA is the administrative organization that oversees the Thai Dhammayut temples and monasteries in the USA. | ||
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+ | :: (See his entry on the [[: | ||
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+ | ====== EF ====== | ||
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+ | :: Susan Elbaum was born in New York City and obtained a BA and an MA at the University of Michigan. She has been practising meditiation in the tradition of [[# | ||
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+ | ====== G ====== | ||
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+ | :: Received his primary education at Royal College, Colombo and thereafter joined the Colombo Law College. After qualifying as as an Attorney At Law, he served as a lawyer for some time and joined the judicial service. He served for some time as a judge and was well known for attempts to bring amicable settlements to legal disputes. Eventually he joined the Public Trustee Office as an assistant Public Trustee and eventually became the Public Trustee in 1954 and held that post till 1962. His Buddhist lectures started when he was the Public Trustee and after retirement he engaged himself full time for the dissemination of the Dhamma. Mr. Gunaratna was a teetotaller, | ||
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+ | :: Ananda W.P. Guruge is a retired Sri Lankan diplomat and a scholar in the field of Indology and Buddhist Studies. He is the author of over thirty books, among the most recent a complete translation of the Sinhalese chronicle, //The Mahavamsa,// | ||
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+ | ====== H ====== | ||
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+ | ====== I ====== | ||
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+ | :: John D. (" | ||
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+ | :: In 1975 Jacquetta Gomes was officially given the Buddhist name Jayasili by the late [[# | ||
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+ | ====== K ====== | ||
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+ | :: Suvimalee Karunaratna was born in Sri Lanka in 1939 and received her early education in Washington, D.C. and in Colombo. While living in Rangoon, where her father was posted as the Sri Lankan ambassador to Burma from 1957-61, she received meditation instructions from the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw and the Ven. Webu Sayadaw. Her first volume of short stories was published in 1973, and several of her short stories have appeared in anthologies of modern writing from Sri Lanka as well as in literary journals. She is the author of several titles in the BPS's //Bodhi Leaves// series of booklets, including // | ||
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+ | :: John Kelly is a lay Buddhist and student of the Dhamma and the Pali language, currently living with his wife and family in Brisbane, Australia. | ||
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+ | ====== L ====== | ||
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+ | :: For biographical information, | ||
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+ | :: Dr. N.K.G. Mendis graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Sri Lanka in 1946 and did his post-graduate training in India and the U.K. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He specialized in thoracic surgery and practiced in Sri Lanka, England and Ghana. Since 1972 he has been in general practice in Nova Scotia, Canada. He acknowledges that, though born to devout Buddhist parents, he has been devoted to Dhamma practice only since 1975, when the circumstances of his life led him to seek refuge in the Triple Gem. He is a supporter of the Buddhist Vihaaras in Washington D.C. and Toronto. <span small> | ||
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+ | Nanayon, Upasika Kee — see [[#kee|Kee Nanayon, Upasika]] | ||
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+ | :: He is the author and translator of about ten Buddhist books in English, German, Sinhala, and Pāḷi and is adept at preaching the Dhamma in English and Sinhala. | ||
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+ | :: Bhikkhu Ñanananda is a Buddhist monk of Sri Lanka. Before his ordination, he was an assistant lecturer in Pali at the University of Peradeniya. After entering the Buddhist order in 1969 he resided mostly in remote hermitages. <span small> | ||
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+ | (Venerable Suvaddhano Bhikkhu, HH the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand) (1913- | ||
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+ | :: K.R. Norman is the current vice president of the [[: | ||
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+ | :: Petr Karel Ontl was born into a Bohemian-American family in Prague, Czechoslovakia, | ||
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+ | :: A student of Ajaan Sao. (See Ajaan Sao's entry on the [[: | ||
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+ | :: Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Leonard Price graduated from Dartmouth College, where he majored in English. He subsequently worked as an actor and writer. In 1987 he ordained in Bangkok at Wat Mahadhatu and took the name Nyanasobhano Bhikkhu. He has spent time in Thailand and Sri Lanka, and currently resides in the United States. <span small> | ||
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+ | ====== R ====== | ||
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+ | :: (See his entry on the [[: | ||
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+ | Sayadaw, Mahasi — see [[# | ||
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+ | Sayadaw, Webu — see [[# | ||
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+ | :: Ven. Soma Thera (Victor Emmanuel Perera Pulle) was educated at St. Benedict' | ||
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+ | :: Francis Story (Anagarika Sugatananda) was born in England in 1910 and became acquainted with Buddhist teachings early in life. For 25 years he lived in Asian countries — India, Burma, and Sri Lanka — where he deeply studied the Buddhist philosophy of life. With that background and endowed with a keen analytical mind, he produced a considerable body of writings, collected and published in three volumes by the Buddhist Publication Society. <span small> | ||
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+ | :: Samanera Sumana (Fritze Stange) was born in Germany and traveled to Sri Lanka, where he ordained as a novice in 1906. He and a Dutchman named Bergendahl (Samanera Suñño) were the first two pupils of Ven. Nyanatiloka. Sumana' | ||
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+ | **U Ba Khin** — see [[# | ||
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+ | **U Silananda** — see [[# | ||
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+ | :: Ven. sister Uppalavanna (from Galle) is a Sinhalese nun, who translated serval books of the Anguttara Nikaya into English. The name "from Galle" has been given to prevent a possible confusion with the German nun [[# | ||
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+ | :: Ven. Varado Mahathera graduated in Medicine in 1984. He was ordained as a Bhikkhu by [[https:// | ||
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+ | :: Upasaka Mahinda Wijesinghe is a Sinhalese practicing Buddhist, who wrote several short Essays of principal teachings, especially on fundamental qualities in regard of the training. | ||
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