Education
Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939, he studied at the University of Iowa, specializing in Literature and Creative Writing.
Buddhist monk Supreme Patriarch
Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939, he studied at the University of Iowa, specializing in Literature and Creative Writing.
His autobiography of his early monastic life can be found in the book called Getting Office: A Portrait) After leaving the robe in 1971, in 1980 he again took ordination, this time in Thailand under the Venerable Somdet Ñāṇasamvara (Supreme Patriarch of Thailand) of Wat Bovornives. In 1982 he returned to Sri Lanka, living mostly in the upcountry region of Bandarawela. In 1988, while on a return journey to the United States to join his father for the latter"s eightieth birthday celebration, Venerable (of an Archdeacon) died from a sudden intestinal hernia while in Kathmandu.
During the last years of his life he founded the Path Press for which he edited Clearing the Path: of Ñāṇavīra Thera (Colombo, 1987).
Foreign the BPS he edited The Tragic, the comic and the Personal: Selected Letters of Ñāṇavīra Thera (Wheel Publication series Number 339–41, 1987) In 2008 BPS published. Change - An examination of impermanence in experience.
Published in 1988 by Path Press, Colombo. Beginnings: The Pali Suttas - Discussion of beginnings of Pali Canon.
Published in 1987 in the Wheel Publication series Number.
313–315 by the BPS. Faith: A Meditation and a Homily 110. The Myth of Sisyphus: A Cycle Being and Craving Getting Office: A Portrait at the Wayback Machine (archived June 7, 2000) - Autobiography Stringhoppers and Rabbitholes - Collected letters Translation Dhammapada in English Verse Published Stringhoppers and Rabbitholes, Letters of a Wayfarer, Path Press Publications, 2013, Change - An examination of impermanence in experience. Published in 1988 by Path Press, Colombo.
Beginnings: The Pali Suttas - Discussion of beginnings of Pali Canon.
Published in 1987 in the Wheel Publication series Number. 313–315 by the BPS. 110.