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    Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (also known as Ajahn Geoff; born December 28, 1949) is an American Buddhist monk and author. Belonging to the Thai Forest Tradition...
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    roots that mean "weaving, sewing", "desire" and "forest or woods." Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu argues that the term nibbāna was apparently derived etymologically...
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    American monk Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, who studied with him for ten years. Jotiko, Fuang (1999) [1980]. "A Single Mind". Translated by Bhikkhu, Ṭhānissaro. Barre...
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    traditions. He and Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu have had a lengthy exchange of public letters debating the subject, in which Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu opposes: As I pointed...
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    Bhikkhu Anālayo is a bhikkhu (Buddhist monk), scholar, and meditation teacher. He was born in Germany in 1962, and went forth in 1995 in the Theravādin...
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    chapter The Radiant Mind Is Unawareness; translator Thanissaro Bikkhu Chah 2013. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (19 September 2015). "The Thai Forest Masters (Part...
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    jhana, dubbed "minimalists" and "maximalists" by Kenneth Rose. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, a western teacher in the Thai Forest Tradition, has repeatedly argued...
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    his student Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. Ajaan Ṭhānissaro has been the resident abbot since 1993.: 178 : 40  Currently there are ten resident bhikkhus, nine American...
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  • Single sutras Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1998). Culavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Set of Questions-and-Answers [MN 44]. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (2001a)...
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  • Visuddhimagga concerns kasina meditation. According to American scholar-monk Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, "the text then tries to fit all other meditation methods into the...
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