Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi

Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi is a Theravada Buddhist monk from New York City. He was ordained in Sri Lanka in 1972 and lived in Asia for twenty-four years. For eighteen years he was editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, the most recent being a full translation of the Anguttara Nikaya, Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. In 2008, he founded Buddhist Global Relief, a nonprofit providing hunger relief and education in countries suffering from chronic poverty and malnutrition. He is president of the Buddhist Association of the United States and lives at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, N.Y

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