Mirko Frýba
Mirko Frýba , Miroslav Alexandr Fryba, (born January 21, 1943 in Prague ; † July 23, 2016 in Kreuzlingen ) was a psychoanalyst and university lecturer in psychology before he became a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka under the name Bhikkhu Kusalananda .
Life
Mirko Frýba had worked as a factory worker before he finally began studying at Charles University in Prague in the 1960s . From an early age he was occupied with Eastern wisdom and made his first experiences with meditation in 1967 on the occasion of a stay of several months in India , among others with Swami Satyananda and became a teacher of Satipatthana-Vipassana himself. Back in Czechoslovakia , Mirko Frýba was active in the non-violent resistance against the occupiers of the Warsaw Pact in 1968 and finally emigrated to Switzerland , which became his second home. He received his doctorate in psychology in Bern in 1975 and made a name for himself as a training analyst and university teacher. He is considered a pioneer of Swiss Buddhism , the founder of the Dhamma Group in Bern (1978) and the founding president of the Swiss Buddhist Union. During his time in Switzerland, he also met Venerable Nyanaponika , who had been coming to Locarno regularly since 1968 , and became his pupil. He also managed to invite his Burmese teacher Mahasi Sayadaw to Zurich .
Since the 1990s Frýba, who had already given a guest lecture on Buddhism and psychology at Charles University in May 1990, developed an intensive teaching activity in the Czech and Slovak Republics , which led to the establishment of numerous local Bodhi groups and later ordination comes from monks and nuns from the Czech and Slovak regions. So he must also be seen as a pioneer of Slovak and Czech Buddhism . He has also translated texts from the Pali canon into Czech again and again .
In 1997 he was ordained a monk ( bhikkhu ) in Sri Lanka, his third home, and lived there for several years in a forest monastery near Kandy . Every year he visited Europe to give lectures in the Czech, Slovak and German-speaking countries. He is considered to be one of the most profound European experts on the Pali canon and especially the Abhidhamma . Since 2006 he has been mainly in Europe again. Among other things, the Zurich Buddhist Vihara was another focus of his life and his Dhamma work. As a member of the world monastery community, he lived from October 2006 to mid-2008 in the world monastery in Radolfzell on Lake Constance and, as 'Thera' (elder), looked after the Buddhist 'Ayukusala' community in several countries in Central Europe.
Works
- Miroslav Frýba: Psychological interaction, intrapsychic structure, individual value system . Diss. Phil.-hist. Bern 1975
- Mirko Frýba: Instructions for Happiness - The Psychology of Abhidhamma , Bauer Verlag, Freiburg 1987
- Mirko Fryba: Abhidhamma at a glance: Texts of the high teaching of the Buddha . Konstanz: Univ., Research Project "Buddhist Modernism", 1990
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frýba, Mirko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kusalananda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-Swiss psychoanalyst, Buddhist monk |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd July 2016 |
| Place of death | Kreuzlingen |