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Mindfulness
in Plain English
By
the Venerable Henepola Gunaratana
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About the Author |
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Venerable
Henepola Gunaratana was ordained at the age of 12 as
a Buddhist monk at a small temple in Malandeniya Village
in Kurunegala District in Sri Lanka. His preceptor was
Venerable Kiribatkumbure Sonuttara Mahathera. At the
age of 20 he was given higher ordination in Kandy in
1947. He received his education from Vidyalankara College
and Buddhist Missionary College in Colombo. Subsequently
he traveled to India for five years of missionary work
for the Mahabodhi Society, serving the Harijana (Untouchable)
people in Sanchi, Delhi, and Bombay. Later he spent
ten years as a missionary in Malaysia, serving as religious
advisor to the Sasana Abhivurdhiwardhana Society, Buddhist
Missionary Society and the Buddhist Youth Federation
of Malaysia. He has been a teacher in Kishon Dial School
and Temple Road Girls' School and Principal of the Buddhist
Institute of Kuala Lumppur.
At
the invitation of the Sasana Sevaka Society, Venerable
Gunaratana came to the United States in 1968 to serve
as Hon. General Secretary of the Buddhist Vihara Society
of Washington, D.C. In 1980 he was appointed President
of the Society. During his years at the Vihara, he has
taught courses in Buddhism, conducted meditation retreats,
and lectured widely throughout the United States, Canada,
Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
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has also pursued his scholarly interests by earning a
B.A., and M.A., and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the American
University. He taught courses in Buddhism at the American
University, Georgetown University and University of Maryland.
His books and articles have been published in Malaysia,
India, Sri Lanka and the United States.
Since
1973 he has been buddhist chaplin at The American University
counseling students interested in Buddhism and Buddhist
meditation. He is now president of the Bhavana Society
in West Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, about 100
miles from Washington, D.C. teaching meditation and
conducting meditation retreats.
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