70 min
Talk
Perceptions Leading to the Deathless — 1
A dharma talk by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi at Chuang Yen Monastery.
About the teacher
Bhikkhu Bodhi
Born Jeffrey Block in Brooklyn in 1944, Bhikkhu Bodhi received full Theravada ordination in Sri Lanka in 1972-73. He is one of the most widely read English translators of the Pali Canon, including The Middle Length Discourses, The Connected Discourses, and The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha.
He has served as president of the Buddhist Association of the United States since 2013, is abbot at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York, and founded Buddhist Global Relief in 2007 to address chronic hunger and its causes. He leads a weekly study course in the Majjhima Nikaya at Bodhi Monastery in New Jersey.
“The search for a spiritual path is born out of suffering.”Bhikkhu Bodhi
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04AUG
Majjhima Nikaya Sutta Study Class
Lafayette, New Jersey, United States · Weekly study class
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10SEP
A Course in the Numerical Discourses of the Buddha
Carmel, New York, United States · Weekly meditation and sutta study class
See event pageWeekly meditation and sutta study class
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