A Study of Middle length Discourses from Tipitaka

Venerable Bhikku Bodhi uploaded by Ranjith Daluwatta

An Exposition of most important selection of Suttas in the Middle Length Discourses as a basis of Studying the Doctrine of Buddhas Teaching, done by the American born Bhikku Bodhi. ;Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City, born in 1944. He obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School.  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 leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998).  From 1984 to 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy,  He lived for ten years with the senior German monk, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (1901-1994), at the Forest Hermitage.  He returned to the U.S. in 2002. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha ( Majjhima Nikaya, 1995 ), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya, 2000), and The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya, 2012). In 2008, together with several of his students,  Ven. Bodhi founded Buddhist Global Relief , a nonprofit supporting hunger relief, sustainable agriculture, and education in countries suffering from chronic poverty and malnutrition.  Other recordings on Archive MN 115 Bahu Dhatuka Sutta  Live Without Fear