Author - Bodhesako, Samanera

S. Bodhesako was an American Buddhist monk who studied literature and creative writing at the University of Iowa. Like many of his generation, he investigated alternatives to the accepted Western lifestyle. After he became a Theravada Buddhist monk in India in 1966, Ven. Bodhesako moved to Sri Lanka, where he spent most of his monastic life. He used his literary and philosophic skills to write some innovative, witty and thought-provoking Buddhist essays, all of which are reproduced in this collection. In his essays Ven. Bodhesako investigates the relations between the Pali Canon and modern, especially existentialist, Western philosophy and literature.