{"title":"Author - Nyanatiloka, Thera","description":"\u003cp\u003eNyanatiloka Mahathera (Germany, 1878–1957), born Anton Gueth, renounced a promising career as a gifted composer and violinist to travel to Burma where in 1904 he became the first recorded continental European to be ordained a Buddhist monk. In 1911, on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, he founded the Island Hermitage, which became a focal point for succeeding generations of Westerners who were drawn to the monastic life, including the bhikkhus Silacara, Nyanaponika, and Nanamoli. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the Venerable Nyanatiloka’s scholarly work was completed under great hardship. As a German national he was arrested, interned, and deported during WWI and WWII. From 1914 to 1919, while in concentration camps in Sri Lanka and Australia, and wandering in China, often living in unsanitary and crowded conditions, he managed to complete his six-volume German translation of the Anguttara Nikaya. He was not permitted to return to his Sri Lankan hermitage until 1926 and so remained a monk in Japan and Thailand. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Island Hermitage was particularly vibrant between the wars as many Western bhikkhus, novices, and lay supporters, mostly German, came to visit or to stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgain interned with several of his students from 1939 to 1946 because of war, first in Sri Lanka, and then in India, the Ven. Nyanatiloka finished his German translation of the Visuddhimagga, wrote his classic \u003cem\u003eBuddhist Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e, and prepared English translations of the works he had formerly completed in German.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe was able to spend the last 11 years of his life, from 1946 to 1957, in relative tranquility in Sri Lanka, becoming a citizen of the newly independent country in 1950. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"nyanatilokaDescr\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ven. Nyanatiloka and his disciple Nyanaponika visited Burma in 1952 and, at the Sixth Buddhist Council in Rangoon in 1956, were the first Western monks to attend any of the Buddhist Councils, unless perhaps there were Greeks at the Third Council in Patna, India, in 250 BCE. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"nyanatilokaDescr\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his life Nyanatiloka Mahathera attracted many disciples, not only due to his scholarship and translations, but also because of his character and the inspiration he gave as one of the very first Europeans to walk successfully the path of a Buddhist monk. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1476","title":"Buddhist Dictionary","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to look inside the book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003eGBS_setLanguage('en');GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781681720968');\u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eThis book contains translations of important Pali words and meditation terms arranged in alphabetical order (Roman-script - normal English); definitions include a longer discussion of certain complex concepts and source references.  There are translations of both English and Pali words mixed together, making it easy to look up important Pali words or terms, or finding them when knowing only the English equivalent.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the Preface to the First Edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As a first attempt of an authentic dictionary of Buddhist doctrinal terms, used in the Pāli Canon and its Commentaries, this present manual will fill a real gap felt by many students of Buddhism. It provides the reader not with a mere superficial enumeration of important Pali terms and their English equivalents, but offers him precise and authentic definitions and explanations of canonical and post-canonical terms and doctrines, based on Sutta, Abhidhamma and the Commentaries, and illustrated by numerous quotations taken from these sources, so that, if anyone wishes, he could, by intelligently joining together the different articles, produce without difficulty a complete exposition of the entire teachings of Buddhism. ...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Nyanatiloka\u003cbr\u003e Central Internment Camp\u003cbr\u003e Dehra-Dun, India 28 8 1946.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor s Preface\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This sixth revised edition is a cooperative effort of the BPS and Pariyatti. In this edition the abbreviation scheme and reference systems have been modernised. Moreover, some of the  source notes  made in an age when digital search tools were not available, and originally located in an appendix have been revised by me in order to accurately reflect the first occurrences of terms and to avoid duplication of statements already found in the entries. The British spelling of words has been retained.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e Nyanatusita\u003cbr\u003e Kandy, Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003e September 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003chr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"buddhist-dictionary-spanish\"\u003eAlso available in Spanish\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nyanatiloka, Thera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback + eBook Bundle","offer_id":42108769566814,"sku":"AMZNKDP774601","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook (PDF | ePUB | MOBI)","offer_id":42108769599582,"sku":"764601","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/770968_e8aa8f36-151a-4a6c-a800-785d4e1ecfe4.jpg?v=1760547663"},{"product_id":"1678","title":"Fundamentals of Buddhism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eminent German scholar-monk Ven. 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This booklet is a helpful exposition for both newcomers as well as practitioners of the Dhamma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=wh394\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView eBook versions for free on the BPS site.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are a total of 447 Wheels published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS), with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/Wheel-Publications_c_386.html\"\u003e222 titles listed on our website\u003c\/a\u003e. However, many of these are currently out of stock. Please note that items which are out of stock will not be re-stocked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an individual Wheel is out of stock, it can be found within the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/search.asp?keyword=collected%20wheel\"\u003eCollected Wheel Publications (BPS edition)\u003c\/a\u003e. 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It shows that combination of phenomena known by the 'conventional name' of 'I', is not at all a mere play of blind chance, but how each phenomenon in this process of existence is entirely dependent upon other phenomena as its conditions, so that with the removal of those phenomena that form the conditions of rebirth and suffering they will not arise again.\" .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=wh140\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView eBook versions for free on the BPS site.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are a total of 447 Wheels published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS), with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/Wheel-Publications_c_386.html\"\u003e222 titles listed on our website\u003c\/a\u003e. However, many of these are currently out of stock. 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