For those who approach the Buddha's teaching as a system of mental development, this book is a reliable and accessible guide to understanding the significance of themes from the Pali discourses, including grasping, right view, craving, passion, contemplation of feeling, happiness, and liberation. Bhikkhu Analayo's rare combination of scholarly rigour and extensive meditation experience adds veracity to these studies.
Excursions into the Thought-World of the Pali Discourses, Bhikkhu Analayo, Pariyatti Press, Paperback, 326 pages, 2012, $19.95
Bhikkhu Analayo was born in Germany in 1962 and ordained in Sri Lanka in 1995. In the year 2000 he completed a Ph.D. thesis on the Satipatthana-sutta at the University of Peradeniya (published by Windhorse in the UK). In the year 2007 he completed a habilitation research at the University of Marburg, in which he compared the Majjhima-nikaya discourses with their Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan counterparts. At present, he is a member of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg, as a Privatdozent (the German equivalent to an associate professorship), and works as a researcher at Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan. Besides his academic activities, he regularly teaches meditation in Sri Lanka.
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