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Getting Off
A Portrait of an American Buddhist Monk
Getting Off is Samanera Bodhesako’s masterful narrative of his early years as a Buddhist novice and monk.
Clearing the Path
(1960-1965)
Clearing the Path contains the text of Ñāṇavīra's revised Notes on Dhamma (1960-1965) together with 149 letters of varying lengths written by Ñāṇavīra to nine correspondents, which serve (as the author himself stated) as a commentary on the Notes. The texts are scrupulously edited, extensively annotated and cross-referenced by means of a comprehensive index.
Seeking the Path
Early Writings (1954-1960) & Marginalia
Seeking the Path consists of Ñāṇavīra's extensive correspondence with Ñaṇamoli Thera from 1954-1959. These letters shed considerable light on the relations between the two men and provide a wealth of material on the formation of Ñāṇavīra's thought prior to his 'stream entry'. The remainder of the volume includes two early essays (Nibbana and Anatta and Sketch for a Proof of Rebirth) as well as notes from a Commonplace Book and Marginalia from books owned by Ñāṇavīra.
The Letters of Sister Vajirā
The Letters to Sister Vajirā documents the correspondence of the Ven. Ñāṇavīra Thera with Sister Vajirā (Hannelore Wolf, 1928-1991) between November 1961 and January 1962.
Notes on Dhamma
(1960-1965)
The principal aim of these Notes on Dhamma is to point out certain current misinterpretations, mostly traditional, of the Pali Suttas, and to offer in their place something certainly less easy but perhaps also less inadequate.
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The Tragic, the Comic and the Personal
Selected Letters
A selection of letters taken from Clearing the Path.
Beginnings
Collected Essays
This is a new collection of all the published and unpublished essays by Samanera Bodhesako. It includes a new edition of the Wheel booklet Beginnings, on the origins and relevance of the Pali Suttas; plus The Buddha and Catch-22, Change, and three previously unpublished essays connecting Western philosophy and literature to the Dhamma.
Notizen zu Dhamma
und andere Schriften
Die Notizen versuchen, eine intellektuelle Grundlage für das Verständnis der Suttas zu schaffen, ohne dabei saddhâ (Vertrauen) preiszugeben. Sie wurden zu dem Zweck geschrieben, eine ganze Menge toter Materie wegzuräumen, die die Suttas erstickt.