Bhikkhu Bodhi

scholar-monk

President of Buddhist Publication Society

Bhikkhu Bodhi's Writings

Bhikkhu Bodhi was appointed the second president of the Buddhist Publication Society and has edited and authored several publications grounded in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.

  • Climbing to the Top of the Mountain.
  • The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering.
  • Right View - The Sammaditthi Sutta and its Commentary.
  • A look at the Kalama Sutta.
  • The Living Message of the Dhammapada.
  • Message for a Globalized World.
  • Questions on Kamma.
  • Questions on Rebirth.
  • Tolerance and Diversity.
  • Two Faces of the Dhamma.
  • The Buddha & His Message - Past, Present, and Future.
  • Promoting Buddhism in Europe.
  • The Case for Study.
  • The Jhānas and the Lay Disciple According to the Pāli Suttas.
  • Dhamma Without Rebirth?
  • Buddhism Without Beliefs: Review.
Bhikkhu Bodhi

Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, he obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College (1966) and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School (1972).

Drawn to Buddhism in his early 20s, after completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the late Ven. Ananda Maitreya, the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk of recent times.

He was appointed editor of the Buddhist Publication Society (in Sri Lanka) in 1984 and its president in 1988. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor, including The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha — A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (co-translated with Ven. Bhikkhu Nanamoli (1995), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha — a New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya (2000), and In the Buddha’s Words (2005).

In May 2000 he gave the keynote address at the United Nations on its first official celebration of Vesak (the day of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing away). He returned to the U.S. in 2002. He currently resides at Chuang Yen Monastery and teaches there and at Bodhi Monastery. He is currently the chairman of Yin Shun Foundation.

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