Bhikkhu Analayo

Bhikku Analayo

Bhikkhu Anālayo is a Buddhist monk ( bhikkhu ), scholar and meditation teacher. He was born in Germany in 1962 and became a monk ( Pabbajja ) in Sri Lanka in 1995 . He is engaged in comparative studies of the early Buddhist texts of different traditions.

Life

Monastic life

Bhikkhu Anālayo was provisionally ordained in Thailand in 1990 , after a period of meditation in Wat Suan Mokkh , the monastery of the monk Ajahn Buddhadasa . In 1994 he went to Sri Lanka, where in 1995 he renewed his vows (pabbajja) under Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero . He received his ordination ( upasampada ) in 2007 in the Shwegyin Nikaya Order (part of the Amarapura Nikaya ). Pemasiri Thera from Sumathipala Aranya was his Acharya and Bhikkhu Bodhi was his main teacher.

Research and Teaching

Bhikkhu Anālayo wrote a doctoral thesis on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta at the University of Peradeniya ( Sinhala පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය ) in 2000 . This was later published as Satipaṭṭhāna, the Direct Path to Realization . During his research on this text, he discovered interesting differences between the text in the Pali canon and in the Chinese Buddhist canon . This discovery led him to a habilitation at the University of Marburg , which he completed in 2007. In it he compared the discussions of the Majjhima-NikAya with the Chinese, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit and Kanjur and Tanjur (Tibetan Buddhist) counterparts. In 2013, Anālayo published the Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna , in which, building on his earlier work, he examines the parallel versions of the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta and illuminates the meditative perspectives that arise from it when they are taken seriously as instructions for meditation.

In addition, Bhikkhu Anālayo made numerous publications on early Buddhism. He is currently the editor and one of the translators of the first English translation of the Chinese Madhyama-āgama (Taishō 26), and has produced an integral English translation of the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama (Taishō 99), parallel to the Pali Saṃyutta Nikāya .

However, the focus of Anālayo's academic work remains theoretical and practical aspects of meditation. He has also authored several articles on Inner Sight and Absorption Meditation and compared current meditation practice with the traditions of the sources.

In the comparative studies of the early Buddhist texts, the historical development of the Bodhisattva ideal comes up again and again , as well as the origins of Abhidharma .

Anālayo was also one of the speakers at the International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha, where he explained the position on bhikkhunis (nuns) in early Buddhist texts and shed light on the history of the founding of women's orders. He is a proponent of bhikkhuni ordination, which is controversial in Theravada and the Tibetan tradition.

Anālayo is now professor at the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg , co-founder of the Āgama Research Group and main staff member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

Works

(In selection)

• The Direct Path of Mindfulness, Satipaṭṭhāna. Herrnschrot: Beyerlein & Steinschulte, 2010
  • (EN) Satipaṭṭhāna, the Direct Path to Realization. Windhorse Publications 2003. ISBN 978-1899579549
• From craving to liberation . Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses, Vol. 1, Buddhist Association of the United States 2009.
• From Grasping to Emptiness . Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses, Vol. 2 Buddhist Association of the United States 2010.
• The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal . Hamburg University Press 2010.
• A Comparative Study of the Majjhima-nikāya. (Dharma Drum Buddhist College Research Series 3) Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation 2011.
• The Legality of Bhikkhunī Ordination. In: D. Keown, C. Prebish (ed.): Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Special 20th Anniversary Issue , 2013 vol. 20: 310-333. (reprinted as a booklet with translations in Sinhala , Thai and Burmese : West Malaysia: Selangor Buddhist Vipassanā Meditation Society, 2013; and New York: Buddhist Association of the United States, 2014).
• Satipaṭṭhāna from the perspective of early Buddhism . Herrnschrot: Beyerlein & Steinschulte, 2018.
  • (EN) Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna. Birmingham: Windhorse Publications 2013. ISBN 978-1909314030
• Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation. Birmingham: Windhorse Publications 2015 ISBN 978-1909314559
• The Foundation History of the Nuns' Order. Bochum / Freiburg: Projektverlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-89733-387-1
• Early Buddhist Meditation Studies. (Vol. 1) Barre Center for Buddhist Studies 2017. ISBN 978-1540410504
• Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts. Windhorse Publications 2017. ISBN 978-1909314726

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography at Agamaresearch.
2. ↑ Bhikkhu Yogananda: Anālayo, The Meditative Scholar ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2010 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. October 15, 2010. 
3. ↑ Analayo: Satipaṭṭhāna, the Direct Path to Realization. Windhorse, Birmingham 2004. ISBN 978-1899579549
4. ^ A Comparative Study of the Majjhima-nikāya. In: Dharma Drum Buddhist College Special Series. Taiwan: Dharma Drum Academic Publisher, 2011.
5. ↑ Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna, Birmingham: Windhorse Publications, 2014.
6. ↑ Publications by Bhikkhu Anālayo. Buddhist studies from the University of Hamburg.
7. ↑ Madhyama-āgama. Agamaresearch
8. ↑ Samyukta-Āgama. Agamaresearch.
9. ↑ Bhikkhu Analayo: meditation. Āgama Research Group.
10. ^ New Publications. Numata Center for Buddhist Studies.
11. ↑ The Dawn of Abhidharma. Hamburg, Hamburg University Press 2014.
12. ↑ Abstract: The Four Assemblies and the Foundation of the Order of Nuns. Foundation for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg; therein: Women's Renunciation in Early Buddhism - The Four Assemblies and the Foundation of the Order of Nuns. Dignity & Discipline, The Evolving Role of Women in Buddhism. Wisdom Publications 2010: 65-97.
13. ^ About: core faculty & members. ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Āgama research group. 
14. ↑ bhikkhunīs and women in Early Buddhism. ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Agamaresearch. 
15. ↑ bcbsdharma.org.

Web links

• Publications by Analayo
• Bhikkhu Anālayo at Āgama Research Group
• Online lectures
• Research projects at the Āgama Research Group