Bhikkhu Bodhi

Bhikkhu Bodhi (Jeffrey Block, b. 1944) is an American Theravāda monk and one of the foremost contemporary translators of the Pali Canon into English. Born in Brooklyn and trained in philosophy, he ordained in Sri Lanka in the early 1970s and for many years edited the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, living alongside the senior monk Nyanaponika. His complete or major translations of the long, middle, connected, and numerical discourses set a modern standard for English readers. Since returning to the United States in 2002 he has taught in New York and founded Buddhist Global Relief, an organization addressing hunger and poverty. He is a living, well-documented figure and is treated aniconically.