Arthur Braverman

Arthur Braverman is an American author, translator, and Zen Buddhist practitioner born on December 8, 1942, in the Bronx, New York. He began his serious…

Zoketsu Norman Fischer is an American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest, teaching and practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. He is a Dharma heir of Sojun…

Born in Hitchin in 1961, Ajahn Kalyano has been a practising Buddhist since he was 17. He began visiting Amaravati in the 1980’s. As a layman his path of…

Venerable Piyatissa Maha Thero (1929 – 2019) ordained in 1941 and he received his higher ordination in 1950. After obtaining his Royal Pundit degree followed…

Dalai Lama is a title given by the Tibetan people to the principal spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama is also considered…

Bhikkhu Sujato was ordained in 1994 as a Theravāda monk in the Thai forest lineage of Ajahn Chah. He lived as a monk in Thailand for some years and then…

Ba Khin was born in Yangon during the British colonial rule in March 1899. In January 1937, Ba Khin met a student of Saya Thet Gyi. Thet Gyi was a wealthy…

Lily de Silva was Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and a regular contributor to Buddhist scholarly and…

Maurice .O’C. Walshe has been an active Buddhist since 1951 and is a past chairman of the English Sangha Trust. He is the author of numerous articles on…

Susan Elbaum Jootla is an American Buddhist living in northern India and a long-term practitioner of vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

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.

Webu Sayadaw (17 February 1896 – 26 June 1977) was a Theravada Buddhist monk, and vipassanā master, best known for giving all importance to diligent practice…

Francis Story (also known ans Anagarika Sugatananda,1910-1972) was born in England in 1910 and became acquainted with Buddhist teachings early in life.

Kotahene Soma Maha Thera (December 23, 1898 – February 23, 1960), born as Victor Emmanuel Perera Pulle in Kotahena, Colombo, was a Theravada Buddhist monk…

Cynthia Natalee Thatcher (1966- 2013) earned her BA in philosophy, working with faculty advisers Marvin Levich and C.D.C. Reeve. In 2000, she completed an MA in…

Ajahn Sumedho (born Robert Karr Jackman, July 27, 1934) is one of the senior Western representatives of the Thai forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism and a…

Ajahn Sucitto, born 4 November 1949, is a British-born Theravada Buddhist monk. He was, between 1992 and 2014, the abbot of Cittaviveka…

Piyadassi Thera (8 July 1914 – 18 August 1998) was born in Kotahena in Colombo, Sri Lanka and was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo…

Nyanatiloka Mahathera (19 February 1878 – 28 May 1957) was the first Continental European in modern times to become a Buddhist monk and one of the foremost…

Ajahn Liem Ṭhitadhammo was born in Sri Saket Province in the Northeast of Thailand on the 5th of November 1941. He is a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest…

Phra Suddhidhammaransi Gambhiramedhacarya (1907–1961), commonly known as Ajahn Lee Dhammadharo, was a meditation teacher in the Thai Forest Tradition of the…

Jack Kornfield (born 1945) is a American author and teacher in the Vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand…

Ayya KhemaWhat is Buddhism? (August 25, 1923 – November 2, 1997) was a Buddhist teacher noted for providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism…

Khantipalo (Laurence Mills), born in London in 1932, read a book on Buddhism during his national service on the Suez Canal which inspired a lifelong interest in…

Ajahn Kalyano was born in the UK and became interested in Buddhism at high school. He began practicing meditation on a regular basis during his time at…

Upasika Kee Nanayon (1901 – 1978) was a Thai Buddhist upāsikā (devout laywoman) from Ratchaburi. After her retirement in 1945, she turned her home into a…

Maung Htin Aung (18 May 1909 – 10 May 1978) was a writer and scholar of Burmese culture and history. Educated at Oxford and Cambridge, Htin Aung wrote several…

John D. Ireland (1932-1998) was born in North London, England. He became a Buddhist at age eighteen and soon began studying Pali. From the 1960’s onward he was…

Hellmuth Hecker (October 12, 1923 – January 7, 2017) was a lawyer and a German interpreter of Theravada Buddhism, chronicler of Buddhism in Germany…

Peter Della Santina was born in the USA. He has spent many years studying and teaching in South Asia and East Asia. He received his BA.

Walpola Rahula Thero (1907–1997) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer. In 1964, he became the Professor of History and Religions at Northwestern…

Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta (1870–1949) was a Thai bhikkhu from Isan region who is credited, along with his mentor, Ajahn Sao Kantasīlo, with establishing the Thai…

Ajahn Nyanadhammo was born in Adelaide in 1955. He became inspired by the Buddha’s message while a biology student, and in 1978 stayed at Wat Buddhadhamma near…

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, born in 1927, is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk. He went to the United States at the invitation of the Sasana Sevaka Society…

Nina van Gorkom, born in 1928, is a Buddhist scholar and translator in the Pali tradition who has written extensively on the Abhidhamma. Born in the Netherlands…

Joseph Goldstein (born May 20, 1944) is one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and…

Ajahn Funn Ācāro was born in 1899 in Phannana Nikhom district, Sakon Nakhorn province, in northeastern Thailand. In 1919 he was ordained as a monk in a village…

Ajahn Fuang Jotiko (1915 – 1986) was a Thai Buddhist monk and abbot in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism. He was a student of Ajahn Lee at Wat…

Ajahn Dune Atulo (1888-1983) ordained at the age of 22 and after becoming disillusioned with his life as an uneducated town monk, he left to study in Ubon…

Ajahn Maha Boowa (12 August 1913 – 30 January 2011) was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was thought by many of his followers to be an Arahant (someone who has attained…

The venerable Bhaddanta Āciṇṇa, more commonly referred to as the Pa-Auk Sayadaw is a Burmese Theravāda monk, meditation teacher and the abbot of the Pa-Auk…

Bhikkhu Anālayo was born in Germany in 1962, and became a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in 1995. He is best known for his comparative studies of Early Buddhist…

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli (1905 – 1960) was born in England and became a monk in Sri Lanka in 1949. During the eleven years he spent as a monk, he acquired a remarkable…

Ledi Sayadaw U Ñaṇadhaja (December 1, 1846 – June 27, 1923) was a highly influential Theravada Buddhist monk. He was recognized from an early age as being…

The Venerable Narada Maha Thera born as Sumanapala Perera (July 14, 1898 – October 2, 1983) was a Buddhist monk and translator within the Theravāda tradition…

Sayadaw U Pandita, born on july 28 in 1921 and deceased on 16 April 2016, was one of the foremost masters of Vipassanā. U Pandita began practicing Vipassana…

Since 2017 our Editors have been working hard to give everyone the opportunity to get acquainted with samatha meditation on buddho, a meditation system that has…

Acharya Buddharakkhita (1922-2013) was a Buddhist monk and writer. After graduating from the Institute of Architectural Technology in Calcutta…

Nyanaponika Thera (Siegmund Feniger) was born on 21 July 1901 in Hanau, Germany. He came into contact with Buddhism early in his youth and left for Sri Lanka in…

Guy E. Dubois (1947) has translated various parts of the early Buddhist texts into Dutch, provided them with commentary and makes them available for free on…

Thānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) is an American Buddhist monk in the kammaṭṭhāna (Thai forest) Tradition. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1971…

Bhikkhu Bodhi is a Buddhist monk of American nationality, born in New York City in 1944. After obtaining a PhD in philosophy from the Claremont Graduate School…

Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana, born on 29-07-1904 and deceased on 14-08-1982, was a Burmese Theravāda Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant…

Ajahn Suwat Suvaco (1919-2002), born in Thailand, joined the Sangha at the age of 20. Two or three years later he became a disciple of Ajahn Funn Acaro.

The Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo (June 17, 1918 – January 16, 1992) was an influential meditation teacher within Buddhism and the founder of two great…

Phra Ajahn Thate Desaransi, (1902-1994) was one of the most famous meditation masters of the ‘Thai Buddhist forest tradition’, a movement within Theravāda…

Venerable Phra Ajahn Sao Kantasilo Mahathera (1861-1942) was a monk in the Thai Buddhist forest tradition. He was a member of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya.