Max Glashoff

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Max Glashoff (born November 12, 1912 in Hamburg ; † April 25, 2008 ) was a German Buddhist and long-time chairman of the German Buddhist Union .

Life

After Glashoff had studied the various world religions, he turned to Buddhism in 1948. On August 22, 1965 he was accepted into the Arya Maitreya Mandala by Lama Anagarika Govinda under the religious name Sarvamitra . From 1960 to 1984 Glashoff was the chairman of the German Buddhist Union. He represented them at the international conferences of the World Fellowship of Buddhists in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, Colombo in 1972, and in Bangkok in 1976 and 1978.

Max Glashoff, who was temporarily on the board of the Buddhist World Organization, was appointed honorary president of the German Buddhist Union in 1984. Glashoff never saw himself as a representative of dogmatic Buddhism: “After studying the teachings of the Buddha for a long time, I came to the conclusion that I am not a“ Buddhist ”! I have taken the recommendations of the enlightened one as a guideline for my existence in order to put an end to the suffering I have created as possible. "

Glashoff was the author of numerous essays and other writings on topics of Buddhism, many of which appeared in Asia.

Works

  • What is buddhism . Hamburg 1980
  • The Buddha's teaching: One way to oneself, one way to others, one way out of everything . Hamburg: Buddhist Society 1996

literature

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Obituary in: Buddhist monthly sheets 3/2008, pp. 29–33 ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bghh.de
  2. ↑ The biographical information in this article follows, unless otherwise indicated: World Fellowship of Buddhists. News Bulletin Vol. 1-2, Bangkok 1964
  3. ↑ Martin Baumann (Ed.): Helmut Klar. Contemporary witness to the history of Buddhism in Germany. Konstanz 1995, p. 85, also mentioned on 15, 18, 94–96, 97, 110 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Friedrich Reg: 50 Years of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) 1950–2002
  5. ↑ Günther Neumeyer: "Buddhism and coincidences." In: Buddhist monthly sheets 1/2010, pp. 5-7
personal data
SURNAME Glashoff, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Buddhist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2008