Bhikkhu Anālayo was born in Germany in 1962. He ordained as a monk in Sri Lanka in 1995. His doctorate, awarded by the University of Peradeniya in 2000, studied the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta, the Pali discourse on the establishing of mindfulness. In 2007 he completed a habilitation at the University of Marburg, comparing the discourses of the Majjhima-nikāya with their counterparts in Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan.
Wikipedia says he is best known for these comparative studies of the early Buddhist texts as different early traditions preserved them; the Barre Center names meditation and women in Buddhism as his special interests. His doctoral thesis was published as Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization (Windhorse, 2003). A later title, Abiding in Emptiness, is subtitled A Guide for Meditative Practice.
He held a professorship at the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg, and Buddhist Inquiry now describes him as a retired professor there. He also co-founded the Āgama Research Group in Taiwan, according to the same source. He lives at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts, the study centre that Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg co-founded in 1989. The Hamburg page notes that he no longer gives talks, reviews books or articles, or supervises theses, so invitations of that kind are not open.
His list of publications is long and spans scholarly studies and practice guides, among them guides to satipaṭṭhāna and to mindfulness of breathing.
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Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization
Windhorse Publications · 2003
Abiding in Emptiness: A Guide for Meditative Practice
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- ScholarlyUniversity of Hamburg, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies: Bhikkhu Anālayo (born 1962, ordained in Sri Lanka in 1995, PhD on the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta at Peradeniya in 2000, habilitation at Marburg in 2007, resident at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, no longer giving talks or supervising)
- OrganisationBuddhist Inquiry: Bhikkhu Anālayo (monk and scholar at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, retired professor at Hamburg, co-founder of the Āgama Research Group in Taiwan, book list)
- ReferenceWikipedia: Bhikkhu Anālayo (read as a pointer only: publishers and years of the two listed books)
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