Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha's Teaching on Voidness
Chaiya (Surat Thani) · 1994
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Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu
1906 CE–1993 CE · Modern · Chaiya (Surat Thani)
1906–1993 CE
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu (1906–1993 CE) was an influential and unconventional Thai Theravāda monk and one of the 20th century's notable Buddhist thinkers. Born in Chaiya in southern Thailand, he founded the forest monastery Suan Mokkh and taught a pared-down, this-worldly reading of the Dhamma that stressed the direct experience of non-attachment and was often critical of ritualism and of literal readings of rebirth and merit. He engaged seriously with other religions and with social questions, and his work shaped both Thai Buddhism and Western interpreters. He is well documented.
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Chaiya (Surat Thani)
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Birthplace of Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu.
About Chaiya (Surat Thani)
Chaiya is a district of Surat Thani province in southern Thailand, an area with ancient ties to the Śrīvijaya period. It was the birthplace, in 1906, of Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu, the influential reformist Thai monk who founded the forest monastery Suan Mokkh ('Garden of Liberation') outside the town.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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Mindfulness with Breathing: A Manual for Serious Beginners
Chaiya (Surat Thani) · 1988